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 

• Robert Burns: I Hae Been At Crookieden: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Ye Jacobites By Name: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Address To The Shade Of Thomson: On Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with a Wreath of Bays. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sweet Afton : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Bonie Bell: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Thou Fair Eliza: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Tocher’s The Jewel: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Altho’ He Has Left Me: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: My Eppie Macnab: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Damon And Sylvia: Fragment by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lovely Polly Stewart: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Gallant Weaver: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig: by Robert Burns

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