Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="FROM_A_RAILWAY_CARRIAGE" id="FROM_A_RAILWAY_CARRIAGE"></SPAN>FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Faster than fairies, faster than witches,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And charging along like troops in a battle,<br/></span> <span class="i12">All through the meadows the horses and cattle:<br/></span> <span class="i12">All of the sights of the hill and the plain<br/></span> <span class="i12">Fly as thick as driving rain;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And ever again in the wink of an eye,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Painted stations whistle by.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,<br/></span> <span class="i12">All by himself and gathering brambles;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And there is the green for stringing the daisies!<br/></span> <span class="i12">Here is a cart run away in the road<br/></span> <span class="i12">Lumping along with man and load;<br/></span> <span class="i12">And here is a mill and there is a river,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Each a glimpse and gone forever!<br/></span></div> </div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_055.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="154" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />