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From A Railway Carriage

(Poem)

Warm Up

● Have you ever travelled on a train?

● How did it feel?

● What did you see during the journey?

ReCITATION

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 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 mill and there is a river;
Each a glimpse and gone forever!

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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