Adlestrop

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

The steam hissed. Someone clear
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.

By: Edward Thomas

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