Silver rails
SILVER RAILS
I hang my lantern on a hook.
My bedroll, I lay by.
Never again in my caboose,
With boxcars on the FLY!
Never again a 'hotbox' will I switch-out,
Nor a crewman leave behind.
It's OVER!, Five and Fifty,
Since on as a Lad I signed;
To ride those SILVER RAILS,
Thru dark and gloomy night,
O'er rough beds and smooth beds,
With hamlets left and right.
In daylight, in black-night.
Thru ice and sleet and snow.
O'er flat-lands and hill lands,
Thru cities all aglow.
I'll miss all my cronies
As I go along life's busy way.
I'll think about them often,
and the scrapes We've all been thru.
I hope they think of ME
and hope they miss Me too.
So I sit now in a lazy chair,
to ponder and to dream,
About those . . . . . SILVER RAILS,
And the Golden Age of Steam:
By; Hayward Christian Beach
Pseudonym for;
Francis M. Faber Jr.
All rights Reserved:(1969)
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Submitted on October 28, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,023 |
Words | 161 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4 |
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