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Midnight On The Great Western

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In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy,      And the roof-lamp's oily flame     Played down on his listless form and face,     Bewrapt past knowing to what he was going,      Or whence he came.     In the band of his hat the journeying boy      Had a ticket stuck; and a string     Around his neck bore the key of his box,     That twinkled gleams of the lamp's sad beams      Like a living thing.     What past can be yours, O journeying boy      Towards a world unknown,     Who calmly, as if incurious quite     On all at stake, can undertake      This plunge alone?     Knows your soul a sphere, O journeying boy,      Our rude realms far above,     Whence with spacious vision you mark and mete     This region of sin that you find you in,      But are not of?

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