The Abandoned Railroad
The Abandoned Railroad
By Elton Camp
Its wooden ties are in a state of decay
The rail bed is partly washed away
Nature slowly but surely will reclaim
Then once again all will be the same
Though the rails alone for decades last
Testimony that a train formerly passed
Surveyors and laborers worked in vain
Why it was put there, none can explain
For those who built it no longer are alive
The works of man so seldom long survive
So it has been through the ages of history
Both people & their works lost in mystery
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2012
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