The Engineer

Let it rain!
Who cares?
I’ve a train
Upstairs,
With a brake
Which I make
From a string
Sort of thing,
Which works
In jerks
‘Cos it drops
In the spring
Which stops
With the string,
And the wheels
All stick
So quick
That it feels
Like a thing
That you make
With a brake,
Not string….

So that’s what I make,
When the day’s all wet.
It’s agood sort of brake
But it hasn’t worked yet.

-A. A. Milne Now We Are Six

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