Nature

From a Railway Carriage

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

From A Child's Garden of Verses

Nature

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And here is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!

MLA

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “From a Railway Carriage.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/36/.

Chicago

Stevenson, Robert Louis. “From a Railway Carriage.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/36/.

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