96 Your world will jerk with a sudden whim

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Your world will jerk with a sudden whim

and hurry you down the headlong rails:

faces, turning, diminish and dim;

brakes let go;  direction fails.

 

Oh, do not smile and mistake

that certain time when you will take,

breath choked back in bug-eyed fright,

a rollercoaster into night.