Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Joseph Mallord Turner 1844 Run little hare, run for your life run through the rain as fast as you can run in a line like the monster behind you – to be saved by your speed, little hare try to outrun the thundering engine jink in a moment so that the giant rumbling by, as blind as Orion will travel away, way past a hare one sodden ploughman led by his horses two men in their boat trying to fish along with some others on the far bank – none of them noticed. No, no one saw you not even the man who wanted to see thrusting his head out of the window blinded by rain driven into his eyes straining to breathe through the steam and the speed to find himself falling back breathless like you – now at rest. No need to run any more as the rain goes on raining, the river flows by and all those various people remaining continue to do whatever they do in no kind of hurry – unlike a train cha...