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title: Seeing It Through (Train driver)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-seeing-it-through-train-driver-1944/
description: 'A tribute poster issued under the London Transport roundel: a uniformed Underground train driver in profile at the controls, with a verse addressed to him.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Seeing It Through, 1944 UK poster: A tribute poster issued under the London Transport roundel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-seeing-it-through-train-driver-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-seeing-it-through-train-driver-1944.jpg)

# Seeing It Through (Train driver)

A tribute poster issued under the London Transport roundel: a uniformed Underground train driver in profile at the controls, with a verse addressed to him. The tell for glittering generalities is the verse's praise terms ('bravely', 'master of a trying trade', 'you carry on'), which are virtue words with no figures or stated task, and the poster asks for no action beyond appreciation. It is a morale and gratitude piece for the home front, not a call to act.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SEEING IT THROUGH

Pilot, all alone you ride
   Through the bowels of the town,
Up into the black outside
   Where the bombs are whistling down.

Bombs and blizzards, fogs and frights-
   "Dead man's handle" at your breast-
Lights-and lights-for ever lights-
   On you ride and never rest.

On to Barking, on to Kew!
   Master of a trying trade,
Seldom do we think of you,
   Never do we feel afraid.

A. P. Herbert

[imprint:] 144-113-1500. 42625-THE BAYNARD PRESS
```

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