From a Railway Carriage

by L&CC Team

From a Railway Carriage 

By Robert Louis Stevenson 

“Child’s Garden of Verses” (1885) 

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, 

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; 

And charging along like troops in a battle, 

All through the meadows and horses and cattle: 

All of the sights of the hills 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 there 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!