A steam train waits at a station on the edge of the world<\/p>\n
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As people sunbathe on a beach in Portugal<\/em><\/p>\n \n The train conductor cuts a lonely figure on the icy platform<\/p>\n \n Some shelter under the yellow and white sun breaks \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \n She looks at the casual mountains above her<\/p>\n \n Whilst others enjoy the the freedom of the shifting sands<\/em><\/p>\n \n It is snowing and the shallow trees are almost obscured by the winter mists<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The day is drawing to a close and the sea is beginning to lose its blush<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n This causes a column of steam to hang vertically in the rigid air<\/p>\n \n In an hour the beach will be empty<\/em><\/p>\n \n Late passengers are running with an undue haste<\/p>\n \n It has served its purpose<\/em><\/p>\n \n As the train is about to leave<\/p>\n \n And leaves only the sand furniture to greet the night<\/em><\/p>\n \n It will not return during the short daylight hours \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A steam train waits at a station on the edge of the world As people sunbathe on a beach in Portugal The train conductor cuts a lonely figure on the icy platform Some shelter under the yellow and white sun breaks \u00a0 She looks at the casual mountains above her Whilst others enjoy the the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}