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In the meantime, though, it's National Poetry month and this is one of my perfect poems for lovely sunny days like today, driving through the Cotswolds.

Adlestrop
by Edward Thomas

Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire

Date: 2011-04-17 09:05 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] muuranker
Everyone seems to be posting this poem! Even those who were not at Moreton in 't Marish!

Date: 2011-04-17 12:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] pellegrina.livejournal.com
What a wonderful, wonderful poem. I don't know Edward Thomas well, I think it's time to remedy that.

Date: 2011-04-17 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyofastolat.livejournal.com
My Mum phoned just after I got home from being out all day, so I was idly skimming my Friends list while talking to her. "Dad's just got back from a walk in Adlestrop," she said, about a milisecond after I'd reached this post and was reading "Adlestrop."

If this is magic, it's probably just as well you didn't post The Destruction of Sennacherib. :-)

Date: 2011-04-18 07:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elegaer.livejournal.com
I've always loved that poem - at Dean Close we always had to enter the Cheltenham kiddies stand-up-and-make-an-idiot-of-yourself-doing-prose-or-poetry-recital annual trauma, and I remember having to do that poem one year. The only time I actually enjoyed it. It brings to me everything wonderful about the Cotswolds.

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