RAILWAY STATION
for all "travellers T the platform the track runs true, A single thread of steel That can be followed through. The destination labelled and known, We choose our own. Ahead the tracks tangle and cross, Confusing the issue, The gleaming rails mark out. possible lossWe want to alter course and know ‘ Where other travellers go, Only one line is ours, The others are peeled away. We pass the shortening hours In changing light and shade On the track’ we have made. Still at every junction doubts arise, Other routes seem fair. Perhaps another way fulfilment lies, And the course held so long At last prove wrong. Yet whether we go in pleasure or pain The route was chosen. At whatever shelter we step from the traits In that strange town Must we lie down. -Jocelyn Henrici
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 5
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138RAILWAY STATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 5
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