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Train Window

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Small towns     Crawling out of their green shirts...     Tubercular towns     Coughing a little in the dawn...     And the church...     There is always a church     With its natty spire     And the vestibule -     That's where they whisper:     Tzz-tzz... tzz-tzz... tzz-tzz...     How many codes for a wireless whisper -     And corn flatter than it should be     And those chits of leaves     Gadding with every wind?     Small towns     From Connecticut to Maine:     Tzz-tzz... tzz-tzz...tzz-tzz...

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