Please some questions and answers from this poem.

SOUTH POINT HIGH SCHOOL. 
CLASS VI 

FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, 
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; 
And charging along like troops in a battle 
All through the meadows the horses and cattle: 
All of the sights of the hill and the plain 
Fly as thick as driving rain; 
And ever again, in the wink of an eye, 
Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles, 
All by himself and gathering brambles; 
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes; 
And there is the green for stringing the daisies! 
Here is a cart run away in the road 
Lumping long with man and load; 
And here is a mill, and there is a river: 
Each a glimpse and gone forever!
                                                                              Robert Louis Stevenson

Here's the questions

Why its said that every thing is for a glimpse and gone for ever in the poem?
Its said as the train moving so fast that the things can't be seen for a long time . The author can only see the things for a moment and then the things are gone .

According to you what is the speed of the train . Give reasons in support to your answer.
The speed of the train is very high . We can estimate the speed of the train by the following lines
In wink of an eye painted stations whistle by
Faster than fairies faster than witches
Each a glimpse and gone for ever

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