THE MIDNIGHT MAIL.
Ali things were blotted out On the earth and m the sky, There was neither moon nor stars, As the midnight mail. went by. WindoAvs lit, whereat a' fate' ' Showed aY moment and was gone, With a roar that, shook the. air, Thrpugh the .night she hurried on!' 'As she thundered down the rails, 1 ' . \ Through the darkness,' mile on mile, Here and there a dreamer stirred, ' Wo Jp^' and hearkened' for a whi le. Pulsing, -palpitant she. -swung • _ Through, the night's devouring black ; Acre and there a signal' showed Red W green 1 — above' her track.'* tfow a strenuous thing she moved, Noav a thing that. danced and played, As she glided down, the ' slope, As she labored up the grade. '• On tlie level .ways -she raced - With a shrill i exulting shout ; With a leap 'of 'pi-ion Trods,And 'a thJ*ottle"o_>e«ed v out. Now She passed a wayside -farm, Now ' a ' sleeping linesman's "tent; Now a scarf, and ndw ; a' pmhie; Streamed "above her as she went. Noav her furnace glare was red ( On the r6ck-hewri;cuttirig's;side, "."' Now it lit a ragged stump, - '"' Noav a limb was crimson-dyed. -'Now the thunder' of her, rush ' Roused '.t_Ge 'futred' knd" feathered' folk ; Now she fOUntairied 'flying sparks. Now- she hugely volumed 'smokeV .- 'Now* a signal's sudderi red Burned a&bve^ irienhce' 'light ; A: ' And the britkes came doAvnttoo lato>M , And she ran no more that night ! — Roderic Quinn.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13348, 4 April 1914, Page 10
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238THE MIDNIGHT MAIL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13348, 4 April 1914, Page 10
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