【What is this train?!】Inside a train running at night.　In Japan.

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   Copper Kettle 2 years ago

   Now as the train bears west,
   
   Its rhythm rocks the earth,
   
   And from my Pullman berth
   
   I stare into the night
   
   While others take their rest.
   
   Bridges of iron lace,
   
   A suddenness of trees,
   
   A lap of mountain mist
   
   All cross my line of sight,
   
   Then a bleak wasted place,
   
   And a lake below my knees.
   
   Full on my neck I feel
   
   The straining at a curve;
   
   My muscles move with steel,
   
   I wake in every nerve.
   
   I watch a beacon swing
   
   From dark to blazing bright;
   
   We thunder through ravines
   
   And gullies washed with light.
   
   Beyond the mountain pass
   
   Mist deepens on the pane;
   
   We rush into a rain
   
   That rattles double glass.
   
   Wheels shake the roadbed stone,
   
   The pistons jerk and shove,
   
   I stay up half the night
   
   To see the land I love.
   (Roethke)