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A Modern Dragon

by Rowena Bennett

Rowena Bastin Bennett

A train is a dragon that roars through the dark
He wriggles his tail as he sends up.a spark.
He pierces the night with his one yellow eye,
And all the earth trembles when he rushes by.




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