21/08/10 - Let it rain ...

Let it rain ...

The Engineer by A. A. Milne from 'Now we are Six'.

Let it rain, 
Who cares?
I've a train
Upstairs,
With a brake 
Which I make 
From a string 
Sort of  thing, 
Which works
In jerks,
'Cos it drops 
In the spring,
 Which stops
With the string,
And the wheels 
All stick
 So quick 
That it feels
Like a thing 
That you make 
With a brake, 
Not string...

So that's what I make.
When the day's all wet,
Its a good sort of brake
But it hasn't worked yet.