Today's poem was written many Junes ago, after a train journey taken by Edward Thomas in 1914, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. Thomas enlisted in 1915 and was killed in 1917, before his collection of poems was published.
Find the full poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53744/adlestrop
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