The Night Mail and Other Poems

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And gossip, gossip from all the nations,

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News circumstantial, news financial,

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Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in,

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Letters with faces scrawled in the margin,

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Letters from uncles, cousins, and aunts,

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Letters to Scotland from the South of France,

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Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands

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Notes from overseas to Hebrides

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Written on paper of every hue,

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The pink, the violet, the white and the blue,

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The chatty, the catty, the boring, adoring,

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The cold and official and the heart's outpouring,

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Clever, stupid, short and long,

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The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong.

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Thousands are still asleep