Way-Station

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The incoherent rushing of the train 
Dulls like a drugged pain

Numbs
To an ether throbbing of inaudible drums

Unfolds
Hush within hush until the night withholds

Only its darkness.
  From the deep 
Dark a voice calls like a voice in sleep

Slowly a strange name in a strange tongue. 

Among

The sleeping listeners a sound
As leaves stir faintly on the ground

When snow falls from a windless sky—
A stir  A sigh

© Archibald MacLeish