What is the meaning of "wild trainloads"
in the poem'The Send '?
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The music plays, a sea of hats and handkerchiefs waves above the crowd, the train with the civilian-clad reservists whistles and pulls away, and everyone in the crowd cheers, shouts and waves. The 149th will soon be leaving too. Elfriede jumps down from the railings. She is swallowed up by the throng and feels as if she is being crushed and smothered. She sees an old woman, eyes red with weeping, who is screaming in heart-rending tones: ‘Little Paul! Where is my little Paul? Let me at least see my son!’ Elfriede, standing there crushed in this jostling and jolting mass of backs and arms and bellies and legs, does not know who Paul is. Shaken, or possibly simply thankful to have something to focus on in this overwhelming confusion of images and sounds and emotions, Elfriede says a quick prayer: ‘Please God, protect this Paul and bring him back to the woman! Please God, please, please, please!’ She watches the soldiers march past and a little boy alongside her sticks his hand pleadingly through the cold bars of the iron railings: ‘Soldier, soldier, goodbye!’ One of the grey-uniformed men reaches out and shakes the hand: ‘Farewell, little brother!’ Everyone laughs, the band plays ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles’ and some of the crowd sing along with it. A long train, decorated with flowers, puffs into Platform 1. At a call on the bugle the soldiers immediately begin to climb aboard to the sounds of oaths, jokes and commands. A soldier hurrying to catch up with the rest passes Elfriede as she stands there behind the railings. She plucks up courage and stretches out her hand to him, shyly mumbling, ‘Good luck!’ He looks at her, smiles and takes her hand as he passes: ‘Until we meet again, little girl!’
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