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On suburban railway stations -- you may see them as you pass -- / There are signboards on the platforms saying, ‘Wait here second class; ' / And to me the whirr and thunder and the cluck of running gear / Seem to be for ever saying, saying ‘Second class wait here' -- / ‘Wait here second class, / Second class wait here. ' / Seem to be for ever saying, saying ‘Second class wait here.'
And the second class were waiting in the days of serf and prince, / And the second class are waiting -- they've been waiting ever since. / There are gardens in the background, and the line is bare and drear, / Yet they wait beneath a signboard, sneering ‘Second class wait here.'