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Notes
1] Adlestrop: a village in Gloucestershire east of Stow-on-the-Wold, bordering on Oxfordshire, and on the A 486. The railway station is now closed.
Edward Thomas wrote on June 23, 1914, in one of his field notebooks:
Then we stopped at Adlestrop, throthe willows cd be heard a chain of blackbirds songs at 12.45 & one thrush & no man seen, only a hiss of engine letting off steam.(Adlestrop Revisited: An Anthology Inspired by Edward Thomas's Poem, ed. Anne Harvey [Trowbridge: Sutton, 1999]: 11; PR 6039 H55Z527 Robarts Library, as quoted from Berg Collection FNB 75, New York Public Library).Stopping outside Campden by banks of long grass willow herb & meadowsweet, extraordinary silence between the two periods of travel --
9] willow-herb: codlins-and-cream.
10] meadowsweet: queen of the meadows, ulmaria.
haycocks: conical hay-stacks.
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Original text: Edward Thomas, Collected Poems, with a Foreword by Walter de la Mare (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1920): 52. PR 6039 H55A17 1920 Robarts Library.
First publication date:
1917
Publication date note: "Edward Eastaway," Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1917)
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1999.
Recent editing: 2:2002/3/6
Composition date:
8
January
1915
Composition date note: (R. George Thomas, p. 70)
Rhyme: abcb
