Poem

[Daisy]

GM - you're welcome. Needless to say, I didn't remember it by heart, but my friend Google knew it.

[Daisy]

We learned that first poem at primary school, Daisy
Plus one about a train jouney which began 'Faster than hedges, faster than bridges ' - or something like that!

Gem - is this the poem you meant? I'd never heard it before, but it sounds like the sort of poem a child would enjoy learning by heart.

From a Railway Carriage
Poem


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 a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!


Robert Louis Stevenson
From A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885

[Gemini]

That's the one Daisy!

It is to be recited, quickly, to keep up with the train!

[Daisy]

LOL. You don't get quite the same rhythm with modern electric trains, though. Everyone needs to go on a steam train at some point in their lives.