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: The Captain’s Lady: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sweet Tibbie Dunbar: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: I Love My Love In Secret: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Jamie, Come Try Me: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Banks Of Nith: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: On A Bank Of Flowers: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Delia, An Ode : “To the Editor of The Star.-Mr. Printer-If the productions of a simple ploughman can merit a place in the same paper with Sylvester Otway, and the other favourites of the Muses who illuminate the Star with the lustre of genius, your insertion of the enclosed trifle will be succeeded by future communications from-Yours, &c., R. Burns. Ellisland, near Dumfries, 18th May, 1789.” by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: The Wounded Hare: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse: Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock: On the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’s Recovery. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Ode On The Departed Regency Bill: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Beware O’ Bonie Ann: by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: To Miss Cruickshank, a very Young Lady : Written on the Blank Leaf of a Book, presented to her by the Author. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Caledonia -A Ballad : by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Lines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig: Sent with some of the Author’s Poems. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell: On Returning a Newspaper. by Robert Burns
• Robert Burns: She’s Fair And Fause: by Robert Burns

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