From a Railway Carriage (Jeremy Rawson)
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- Editor: Jeremy Rawson (submitted 2022-06-24). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 188 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: From a Railway Carriage
Composer: Jeremy Rawson
Lyricist: Robert Louis Stevenson
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2022
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Original text and translations
English text
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!