Here is a Tramp who Stands and Gazes

Today's pic was a no brainer, despite me having lots of lovely ones from my cycle out to Colinton Tunnel to meet a dear old pal.

The project has been led by Chris Rutterford, who painted the wedding painting of said dear old pal's wedding.

The poem is based around a Robert Louis Stevenson poem 'From a Railway Carriage' written 1885:

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as the driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever.


Ps it takes a long time to grow a dear old pal.