Adlestrop
Edward Thomas
1878 to 1917
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Unwontedly. It was late June.
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
On the bare platform. What I saw
No one left and no one came
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Was Adlestrop — only the name
And for that minute a blackbird sang
No whit less still and lonely fair
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Yes. I remember Adlestrop —
The steam hissed. Some one cleared his throat.
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
Of heat the express-train drew up there
The name, because one afternoon
Close by, and around him, mistier,
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