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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Poems in English 

• Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Behold the hour by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• On Chloris being ill (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• How cruel are the parents by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Had I a cave by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Craigieburn Wood by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Poem on Pastoral Poetry by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Lines of John M’Murdo by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Inscription for an Alter of Independence by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epitaph on a Lap-dog by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• O aye my wife she dang me (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns
• Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song) by Robert Burns by Robert Burns

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