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Rudyard Kipling - The Way Through the Woods

2014-11-07 306 Dailymotion

They shut the road through the woods <br />Seventy years ago. <br />Weather and rain have undone it again, <br />And now you would never know <br />There was once a road through the woods <br />Before they planted the trees. <br />It is underneath the coppice and heath, <br />And the thin anemones. <br />Only the keeper sees <br />That, where the ring-dove broods, <br />And the badgers roll at ease, <br />There was once a road through the woods. <br /> <br />Yet, if you enter the woods <br />Of a summer evening late, <br />When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools <br />Where the otter whistles his mate. <br />(They fear not men in the woods, <br />Because they see so few) <br />You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, <br />And the swish of a skirt in the dew, <br />Steadily cantering through <br />The misty solitudes, <br />As though they perfectly knew <br />The old lost road through the woods. . . . <br />But there is no road through the woods.<br /><br />Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-way-through-the-woods/

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