All of the sights of the hill and the plain

The Colinton Tunnel is looking fantastic  now it's finished - you can read a bit more about it here, and Chris Rutterford (the artist) has a website here ...

... the picture shows a section of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, "From a Railway Carriage", which is recited in full (see below) along the whole length of the tunnel.

If you haven't already been to see it - do get along, if you can!


From a Railway Carriage

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

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