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Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas
In just two years, he wrote over 140 poems. Written during wartime, while serving as a soldier, much of his work blends and shifts between meditative recollections of his beloved countryside and his experiences in battle...
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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.
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