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Chemin de Fer lyrics by John Harbison

Alone on the railroad track
I walked with pounding heart
The ties were too close together
Or maybe too far apart

The scenery was impoverished:
Scrub-pine and oak; beyond
Its mingled gray-green foliage
I saw the little pond

Where the dirty old hermit lives
Lie like an old tear
Holding onto its injuries
Lucidly year after year

The hermit shot off his shot-gun
And the tree by his cabin shook
Over the pond went a ripple
Thе pet hen went chook-chook

„Lovе should be put into action!”
Screamed the old hermit
Across the pond an echo
Tried and tried to confirm it