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