>Dear Coooleagues,
a friend ask for the origin of the quotation below. I don't
think it is quite Kipling but I may be wrong or you may know another
author.
Jeffery Lewins
>
>Dear Jeffery,
>
>Here is the verse that my son has sent me.
>
>Who is in charge of the clattering train?
>The axles creak and the couplings strain,
>And the pace is hot, and the points are near,
>And Sleep has deadened the driver's ear;
>And the signals flash through the night in vain,
>For Death is in charge of the clattering train.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Derek.
--
Dr Jeffery D Lewins,
Praelector Magdalene College,
Cambridge CB3 0AG
(01223) 332100 facs 363637
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