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Lesson The World
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from a Railway

Carriage

Transport

Warm Up

• Have you ever travelled in a train and watched the view from the window of things
passing by? How did it feel?

• Did you feel as if the trees and electric poles were moving in the opposite direction?
Describe your experience.

About the Poet

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) is best known as the author of the children’s book,
Treasure Island. He was a 19 century Scottish writer. A few of his famous works are An
th
Inland Voyage, Kidnapped and so on. You may have read a few of his poems.

Let us read a poem in which the poet describes how the world looks from a speeding train.

I Read

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

hedges witch

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