The Talking Lion-cub

1.09.2010

Drive past the long-fenced fields,

through the old, time worn streets,

until you arrive at Mercy.

Posted by Kermit and Elektra

They shut the road through the woods

Seventy years ago.

Weather and rain have undone it again,

And now you would never know

There was once a path through the woods

Before they planted the trees,

It is underneath the coppice and heath,

And the thin anemones.

Only the keeper see

That, where the ring-dove broods,

And the badgers roll at ease,

There was once a road through the woods.

~Runyard Kipling, fr. The Oxford Book of English Verse

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