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by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)

Adlestrop
 (Sung text for setting by A. Payne)
 Matches original text
Language: English 
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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Anthony Payne (b. 1936), "Adlestrop", 1989 [ soprano and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917), "Adlestrop", written 1915

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Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2010-05-30
Line count: 16
Word count: 94

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