Some Views Of The English Countryside, From The Car

There is a wonderful poem, by Robert Louis Stevenson, called From A Railway Carriage

Some of these glimpses of Britain in the autumn sunshine reminded me of the last line of the poem, "Each a glimpse then gone for ever." The full poem is below.

As these are from the road they contain crash barriers and other structures not necessarily of great beauty.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like troops in a battle,
All through the meadows the horses and cattle:
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
  
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there is the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill and there is a river:
Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

Robert Louis Stevenson