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Tarka Trailing​

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Barnstaple to Bideford

On the Tarka Trail

Here it was that Williamson

Wove his much-loved tale

Along the broad, quiet estuary

With swallows swooping low

Brown signs upon a single post

Showing where to go

Cormorants on the water

Then diving down below

'Fore swiftly reappearing

Upon the tidal flow

Waders on the sand banks

Dunlin flying by

Curlew's lonely calling

Beneath a leaden sky.

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