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