Edward Thomas – Sidetracked

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.

Edward Thomas

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53744/adlestrop

“Adlestrop” is a poem by the talented nature writer and poet Edward Thomas. It is based on a railway journey Thomas took on 24 June 1914, during which his train briefly stopped at the now closed station (Beeching Cuts 1960s?) in the Gloucestershire village

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