That was it, Bill. Sorry I couldn’t think fit right away. But because it sticks in my head, I see allusions I guess in such as yours…
Doug
> On May 6, 2019, at 4:28 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I get what you mean about knowing Thruppence now, Andrew. I was just a bit
> slow.
>
> Slessor’s poem, Doug, was The Night Ride, but I can’t say I was consciously
> channeling it. Great poem. I am tempted to appropriate ‘the dark train’!
>
> Gas flaring on the yellow platform; voices running up and down;
> Milk-tins in cold dented silver; half-awake I stare,
> Pull up the blind, blink out - all sounds are drugged;
> the slow blowing of passengers asleep;
> engines yawning; water in heavy drips;
> Black, sinister travellers, lumbering up the station,
> one moment in the window, hooked over bags;
> hurrying, unknown faces - boxes with strange labels -
> all groping clumsily to mysterious ends,
> out of the gaslight, dragged by private Fates,
> their echoes die. The dark train shakes and plunges;
> bells cry out, the night-ride starts again.
> Soon I shall look out into nothing but blackness,
> pale, windy fields, the old roar and knock of the rails
> melts in dull fury. Pull down the blind. Sleep. Sleep
> Nothing but grey, rushing rivers of bush outside.
> Gaslight and milk-cans. Of Rapptown I recall nothing else.
> Kenneth Slessor <https://www.poemhunter.com/kenneth-slessor/poems/>
> Bill
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 2:08 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I would have sworn there’s a famous poem about a night train, not the one
>> by Rodney Hall of that title, but earlier, maybe of a station at night, but
>> I can’t think of it right now.I thought you might be alluding to it, Bill.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On May 5, 2019, at 2:29 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thruppence was 3 pennies in my childhood economy - but it was also a
>> young
>>> Indigenous girl's mission name (why, I don't know).
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 09:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Pat, Andrew, Doug. Re Thruppence, other famous poem references,
>> I
>>>> am totally in the dark.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 1:55 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A good question & sharp here, Bill, with that references to a famous
>>>>> earlier poem…
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 30, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Her night train query:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Excuse me, do you know
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sunshine*, at all?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bw
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>
Douglas Barbour
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