Adlestrop (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.
Illustrazione realizzata durante il workshop Poesie illustrare presso la Scuola internazionale di illustrazione di Sarmede, Treviso.
