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Adlestrop

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In the peaceful Cotswolds

A station out of time

Adlestrop on sign board

Immortalised in rhyme

A poet in the carriage

When once a train stopped here

Moved to write his thoughts down

For others folk to hear

I understand his motive

I often do as much

To take a special moment

And capture with a touch

But whene'er I read his words

I'm usually forced to say

He could've done it better

Brought far more into play

The rhymes I find are plodding

Poetic chance here missed

If given the same subject

I'd make a better fist

But Edward Thomas lives on

My name will likely fade

And no one soon will ever know

Near Adlestrop I stayed.

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