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Alaskan Train

The dense smell in air is sobering But pleasant You can feel it in your nose Your mind and soul You know it is a smell of wonder It’s coming from nearby meadow vast as sea The smell of fresh air coming from horizon’s infinity The smell awakens your essence your spirit All aboard conductor yells The voice coming from the front of a train And soon you are sitting in a wagon of that train As you gaze through the window you see Nature in all its majesty The great meadow The forests with ancient trees casting a shadow The mountains filled with terrifying beauty As you pass the meadow and its beautiful smell You see forest with many secrets to tell In it grizzly bear will feast And wolves live further east And puma stalks its prey But there is more coming your way In forest live spirits older than oldest tree Even though them you cannot see You feel their presence in your own soul You feel them in every chestnut that would fall You feel them in those eerie rushes by the tracks You feel them in the mountain avalanche As great bold eagle flies Towards linen blue skies When sitting on a branch of a tree that by the tracks lies It can see such spirits with its eyes The spirits send signals to your mind as well Only most people of their existence cannot tell But when you see vortex or theory of everything in a dream That is them communicating with you through the dream You feel their presence in your own soul You feel them in every chestnut that would fall You feel them in those eerie rushes by the tracks You feel them in the mountain avalanche

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