THE AWAKENING
(A Little Romance of the Restaurant-Car).
Is there a sight so soothing to the brain
As England's outlines green and softly curved,
Visions of wooded slope and fertile plain
Seen by the traveller in a dining-train,
No doubts to vex him and no talk to strain,
His seat, his chance companion, both reserved?
I think not. Yet the rather stoutish man