Labor Day

[“Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, Lowell, Mass.” Photograph by Jack Delano. January 1941. From the Library of Congress Flickr pages. Click for a larger view.]

They also work who only stand and wait.

That’s Union Station, “Lowell’s main railroad station from 1894 to the 1950s.”

[“They also serve who only stand and wait”: John Milton, sonnet 19.]