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Unread 05-06-2017, 04:02 PM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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I too especially like the Larkin. His lines:

"And the countryside not caring:
The place-names all hazed over
With flowering grasses"

can't help but remind me of 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.

NB written or at least published in 1917.
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