| Show NA aj a THE FHE MIDNIGHT TRAI ajram As I 1 lay awake in the night and heard the pattering rain faintly I 1 caught the rumbling sound of the coming midnight train tho world ipas was murky and s M air was leaded with damp and on tg the voids folds of the mist it came carne the noise of this iron tramp iv plunging through darkness and roy soy screaming its signal before searching the night with its eya evo eyo of flame and the earth wiLh lub its roar i s i I 1 the track ud rould could tell by the sinking and swell sw eil ell odthe of the sound sounds when it dared daood chrol d or toiled up agrade a gra or leaped oon oen 0 cr a bridge at il a bou bound nid rid how mow the tile sund lumi gund gunj i floated e cu on the air now it d d JL round the th i ru r ve on the hill hll now lost to the tile ear id III ghe ibe the deep rocky pass pas i but the tue mal mid thin thing still I 1 lunging through elaiane s and mista mists mist sending wald wa Ilar laruis tims before levore like ilke demon of darkness letlo from prom acl t ron rou a flery fiery bhore and abw ai the fie avida 1 I are ire passed ando and of t t ea baes c baon ason es on ti tin r t i earth as it t rs long iong e ness anel auel i i i oh IL that s i L f an fn it t clil chi i I 1 from i i i cut ent wo wot cid cia iud uld i ij nest liest slight r dinou ti tt ight glit and ci tv i the i ald git 41 1 l t c r Z nis nii lot let biot and ano nearer it coni c nes us louder the crash and anu ana the mar ruai bearing the precious of life two hundred souls an more mone many their errands be some journey for trase and gain some mome go to the gloomy chamber of I 1 randsome and some gome to the th bridal train here hero are idyes heavy with w th sleep J here bright with light of love iove tn in joy and in tears with hopes hops fear fears on through the darIc darkness ness they feidl move I 1 i 1 1 s and now it goes hyat hrat a laap 4 I 1 wild the weird linshes it throws out of thick darkness it comes an flight and ana nto thick darku oss t goes frig izig through ii blackness blackness and foz fog sending loud signals before the night with a eye of ariam framk t L I 1 and the earth carth with its roar |