The train journey

There, in God’s country, the benign rulerHad promptly burst out of the earth’s bowelsA sea of coconuts smothered, sultrily,The most unwilling moss-painted housesThe banyan raised its feet high enoughFor hundreds of creepy monsoon-creaturesThe journey then began in white rainWaiting for streaks of silver sunshineTo crawl through upright areca nut barksAs the telephone wires went up [...]

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