![]() ![]() ![]() Or of friendly tea beside the band in Cranston’s or Crawford’s:Īsleep in working Glasgow, asleep in well-set Edinburgh,īut shall wake soon and hope for letters,įor who can bear to feel himself forgotten? Summary of Night Mail The typed and the printed and the spelt all wrong. The cold and official and the heart’s outpouring, The chatty, the catty, the boring, the adoring, The pink, the violet, the white and the blue, Letters of condolence to Highlands and Lowlands Letters to Scotland from the South of France, Letters with faces scrawled on the margin, Letters with holiday snaps to enlarge in, To inspect new stock or to visit relations, Set on the dark plain like gigantic chessmen. Towards the fields of apparatus, the furnaces Towards the steam tugs yelping down a glade of cranes Stare from bushes at her blank-faced coaches. Shovelling white steam over her shoulder,īirds turn their heads as she approaches, The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time. The shop at the corner, the girl next door. ![]() Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, This is the night mail crossing the Border,īringing the cheque and the postal order, ![]()
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