“What's the railroad to me?...”
by Henry D. Thoreau

What’s the railroad to me?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows;
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.

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A Note on the Text:

• Source: Walden [The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906) p. 136]

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