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From A Railway Carriage

This 3 sentence summary describes the key details from the provided document: The document is a poem titled "From A Railway Carriage" written by Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, best known for works like Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, that describes the quickly passing scenery from the window of a moving train as bridges, houses, cattle and more fly by "as thick as driving rain".

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From A Railway Carriage

This 3 sentence summary describes the key details from the provided document: The document is a poem titled "From A Railway Carriage" written by Scottish novelist and writer Robert Louis Stevenson, best known for works like Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, that describes the quickly passing scenery from the window of a moving train as bridges, houses, cattle and more fly by "as thick as driving rain".

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From A Railway

Carriage
ROBERT LUIS STEVENSON

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish


novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. He is
well-known
for his childrens classics too. His most famous
works are
Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He also composed music for
the flagcolet, a kind of keyed soprano recorder.

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 here is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart runaway in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone forever!

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