I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Song—Auld Rob Morris by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Anna, thy Charms by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Ae fond Kiss by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—The Birks of Aberfeldy by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Stay my Charmer by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—She’s Fair and Fause by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—O let me in this ae night by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Fragment—Leezie Lindsay by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Farewell to the Highlands by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Song—Behold, my love, how green the groves by Robert Burns by Robert Burns

More external links (open in a new tab):

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Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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