The Night Mail and Other Poems

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But a jug in the bedroom gently shakes.

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Dawn freshens, the climb is done.

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Down towards Glasgow she descends

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Towards the steam tugs yelping down the glade of cranes,

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Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces

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Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen.

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All Scotland waits for her:

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In the dark glens, beside the pale-green sea lochs

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Men long for news.

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Letters of thanks, letters from banks,

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Letters of joy from the girl and the boy,

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Receipted bills and invitations

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To inspect new stock or visit relations,

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And applications for situations

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And timid lovers' declarations