Well a very long evocative poem of Thomas, for me at least, must end up in the poetry thread, a long winding idyllic poem of times past in Wiltshire. On a day when we must hold our breath as the wickedness of war in Syria (and the rest of the world) once more stands in sharp contrast to the benign and green spring time land we have at the moment.
AT hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travelling
In search of something chance would never bring,
An old man's face, by life and weather cut
And coloured,--rough, brown, sweet as any nut,--
A land face, sea-blue-eyed,--hung in my mind
When I had left him many a mile behind.
All he said was: "Nobody can't stop 'ee. It's
A footpath, right enough. You see those bits
Of mounds--that's where they opened up the barrows
Sixty years since, while I was scaring sparrows.
They thought as there was something to find there,
But couldn't find it, by digging, anywhere.
"To turn back then and seek him, where was the use?
There were three Manningfords,--Abbots, Bohun, and
Bruce:And whether Alton, not Manningford, it was,
My memory could not decide, because
There was both Alton Barnes and Alton Priors.
All had their churches, graveyards, farms, and byres,
Lurking to one side up the paths and lanes,
Seldom well seen except by aeroplanes;
And when bells rang, or pigs squealed, or cocks crowed,
Then only heard. Ages ago the road
Approached. The people stood and looked and turned,
Nor asked it to come nearer, nor yet learned
To move out there and dwell in all men's dust.
And yet withal they shot the weathercock, just
Because 'twas he crowed out of tune, they said:
So now the copper weathercock is dead.
If they had reaped their dandelions and sold
Them fairly, they could have afforded gold.
Many years passed, and I went back again
Among those villages, and looked for men
Who might have known my ancient. He himself
Had long been dead or laid upon the shelf,
I thought. One man I asked about him roared
At my description: "'Tis old Bottlesford
He means, Bill." But another said: "Of course,
It was Jack Button up at the White Horse.
He's dead, sir, these three years." This lasted till
A girl proposed Walker of Walker's Hill,
"Old Adam Walker. Adam's Point you'll see
Marked on the maps.""That was her roguery,
"The next man said. He was a squire's son
Who loved wild bird and beast, and dog and gun
For killing them. He had loved them from his birth,
One with another, as he loved the earth.
"The man may be like Button, or Walker, or
Like Bottlesford, that you want, but far more
He sounds like one I saw when I was a child.
I could almost swear to him. The man was wild
And wandered. His home was where he was free.
Everybody has met one such man as he.
Does he keep clear old paths that no one uses
But once a life-time when he loves or muses?
He is English as this gate, these flowers, this mire.
And when at eight years old Lob-lie-by-the-fire
Came in my books, this was the man I saw.
He has been in England as long as dove and daw,
Calling the wild cherry tree the merry tree,
The rose campion Bridget-in-her-bravery;
And in a tender mood he, as I guess,
Christened one flower Love-in-idleness,
And while he walked from Exeter to Leeds
One April called all cuckoo-flowers Milkmaids.
From him old herbal Gerard learnt, as a boy,
To name wild clematis the Traveller's-joy.
Our blackbirds sang no English till his ear
Told him they called his Jan Toy 'Pretty dear.'(She was Jan Toy the Lucky, who, having lost
A shilling, and found a penny loaf, rejoiced.)
For reasons of his own to him the wren
Is Jenny Pooter. Before all other men
'Twas he first called the Hog's Back the Hog's Back.
That Mother Dunch's Buttocks should not lack
Their name was his care. He too could explain
Totteridge and Totterdown and Juggler's Lane:
He knows, if anyone. Why Tumbling Bay,
Inland in Kent, is called so, he might say.
Kent, is called so, he might say."
But little he says compared with what he does.
If ever a sage troubles him he will buzz
Like a beehive to conclude the tedious fray:
And the sage, who knows all languages, runs away.
Yet Lob has thirteen hundred names for a fool,
And though he never could spare time for school
To unteach what the fox so well expressed,
On biting the cock's head off,--Quietness is best,--
He can talk quite as well as anyone
After his thinking is forgot and done.
He first of all told someone else's wife,
For a farthing she'd skin a flint and spoil a knife
Worth sixpence skinning it. She heard him speak:
'She had a face as long as a wet week'
Said he, telling the tale in after years.
With blue smock and with gold rings in his ears,
Sometimes he is a pedlar, not too poor
To keep his wit. This is tall Tom that bore
The logs in, and with Shakespeare in the hall
Once talked, when icicles hung by the wall.
As Herne the Hunter he has known hard times.
On sleepless nights he made up weather rhymes
Which others spoilt. And, Hob being then his name,
He kept the hog that thought the butcher came
To bring his breakfast 'You thought wrong,' said Hob.
When there were kings in Kent this very Lob,
Whose sheep grew fat and he himself grew merry,
Wedded the king's daughter of Canterbury;
For he alone, unlike squire, lord, and king,
Watched a night by her without slumbering;
He kept both waking. When he was but a lad
He won a rich man's heiress, deaf, dumb, and sad,
By rousing her to laugh at him. He carried
His donkey on his back. So they were married.
And while he was a little cobbler's boy
He tricked the giant coming to destroy
Shrewsbury by flood. 'And how far is it yet?
'The giant asked in passing. 'I forget;
But see these shoes I've worn out on the road
And we're not there yet.' He emptied out his load
Of shoes for mending. The giant let fall from his spade
The earth for damming Severn, and thus made
The Wrekin hill; and little Ercall hill
Rose where the giant scraped his boots. While still
So young, our Jack was chief of Gotham's sages.
But long before he could have been wise, ages
Earlier than this, while he grew thick and strong
And ate his bacon, or, at times, sang a song
And merely smelt it, as Jack the giant-killer
He made a name. He too ground up the miller,
The Yorkshireman who ground men's bones for flour
"Do you believe Jack dead before his hour?
Or that his name is Walker, or Bottlesford,
Or Button, a mere clown, or squire, or lord?
The man you saw,--Lob-lie-by-the-fire, Jack Cade,
Jack Smith, Jack Moon, poor Jack of every trade,
Young Jack, or old Jack, or Jack What-d'ye-call,
Jack-in-the-hedge, or Robin-run-by-the-wall,
Robin Hood, Ragged Robin, lazy Bob,
One of the lords of No Man's Land, good Lob,--Although he was seen dying at Waterloo,
Hastings, Agincourt, and Sedgemoor too,--Lives yet.
He never will admit he is dead
Till millers cease to grind men's bones for bread,
Not till our weathercock crows once again
And I remove my house out of the lane
On to the road." With this he disappeared
In hazel and thorn tangled with old-man's-beard.
But one glimpse of his back, as there he stood,
Choosing his way, proved him of old Jack's blood
Young Jack perhaps, and now a Wiltshireman
As he has oft been since his days began.
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- The Great Leader (gjrk, Apr 16, 2008, 22:19)
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- Wiltshire Downs (Chance, Jun 06, 2008, 19:18)
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- Re: Megalithic Poems (poddy, Jun 18, 2008, 14:39)
- Knockawaddra (gjrk, Jun 25, 2008, 13:04)
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- Megalithic mishap (gjrk, Aug 03, 2008, 01:27)
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- Re: Megalithic Poems (moss, Aug 10, 2008, 08:04)
- Persephone Vandegrift: Henge of stones... (Littlestone, Aug 13, 2008, 07:03)
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- Re: Megalithic Poems (handofdave, Aug 17, 2008, 04:46)
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- The Way Stones (gjrk, Sep 17, 2008, 13:51)
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- re; Landscape of the Daylight Moon - Jeremy Hooker (moss, Nov 30, 2008, 10:39)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (albion, Nov 30, 2008, 23:44)
- Eugène Guillevic: Carnac (Littlestone, Dec 10, 2008, 21:22)
- Matthew Arnold: Stanzas Composed at Carnac (Littlestone, Dec 11, 2008, 21:39)
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- Re: Megalithic Poems (tiompan, Feb 03, 2009, 14:26)
- Beowulf: The Ravager of the night (Littlestone, Feb 05, 2009, 23:26)
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- John William Burgon: Petra (nigelswift, Jun 25, 2009, 06:40)
- Kettley Crag (Littlestone, Jul 04, 2009, 22:40)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (tiompan, Jul 14, 2009, 14:28)
- O'Hartigan: Hill of Tara (Littlestone, Jul 21, 2009, 07:28)
- Life on the Chalk Downs: Persephone Vandegrift (Littlestone, Sep 01, 2009, 19:35)
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- Index (Littlestone, Oct 03, 2009, 18:00)
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- Re: Megalithic Poems (Branwen, Oct 25, 2009, 14:18)
- The Ballad of Lord Soulis and the Nine Stane Rig (Branwen, Nov 06, 2009, 23:03)
- The Song of the Ley (baza, Nov 09, 2009, 20:26)
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- The Megaliths: Norman Nicholson (Littlestone, Feb 19, 2010, 15:48)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (bernie, Feb 20, 2010, 13:44)
- Caractacus: William Mason (Littlestone, Feb 20, 2010, 21:12)
- Only a dream: Gordon Kingston (Littlestone, Mar 03, 2010, 12:18)
- Edith Nesbit - The Story of the Amulet (nigelswift, Mar 24, 2010, 07:21)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (ocifant, Mar 25, 2010, 12:27)
- Re: Megalithic filmpoems (Tim Cumming, Mar 25, 2010, 14:21)
- Happy fifth birthday Meg Poems thread. (nigelswift, Mar 27, 2010, 12:26)
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- Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising (thesweetcheat, May 31, 2010, 21:22)
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- The Druid: William Stukeley (Littlestone, Jul 07, 2010, 19:40)
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- The Ruin (Littlestone, Sep 07, 2010, 15:40)
- Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (nigelswift, Sep 13, 2010, 15:23)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (VBB, Sep 13, 2010, 18:50)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (Littlestone, Sep 14, 2010, 14:28)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (nigelswift, Sep 14, 2010, 18:44)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (Littlestone, Sep 14, 2010, 19:39)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (VBB, Sep 15, 2010, 08:29)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (nigelswift, Sep 15, 2010, 09:52)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (Littlestone, Sep 15, 2010, 11:03)
- Re: Avebury, from Experience of Life, Elizabeth Sewell (Littlestone, Sep 15, 2010, 14:09)
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- Re: Rite (tjj, May 17, 2011, 18:48)
- John Montague: Like dolmens round my childhood (Littlestone, Jun 03, 2011, 15:05)
- Downland Man: H J Massingham (Littlestone, Jul 04, 2011, 20:36)
- Search engine (Littlestone, Jul 05, 2011, 09:39)
- George Monkland - The Invitation (VBB, Jul 12, 2011, 08:19)
- Stone (PMM, Oct 29, 2011, 23:23)
- Rudyard Kipling: A Charm (Littlestone, Nov 01, 2011, 12:04)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (Howburn Digger, Nov 01, 2011, 19:01)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (Howburn Digger, Nov 01, 2011, 19:03)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (tiompan, Nov 08, 2011, 20:11)
- Beowulf (Littlestone, Nov 11, 2011, 12:02)
- Re: Beowulf (tiompan, Nov 11, 2011, 12:35)
- Index (Littlestone, Nov 11, 2011, 14:46)
- Geoff Butts: Avebury (moss, Dec 31, 2011, 09:47)
- Gillian Clarke -Stone (moss, Jun 12, 2012, 11:24)
- Jan Morris: In their lichened faceted faces (Littlestone, Jun 23, 2012, 16:11)
- The oldest poem of them all... (Littlestone, Jun 25, 2012, 21:25)
- Jeremy Hooker: Chalk (Littlestone, Jul 06, 2012, 12:22)
- Re: Megalithic Poems (Evergreen Dazed, Aug 08, 2012, 11:35)
- Rev. F. Kilvert : And bold profaners evil will betide (Littlestone, Sep 08, 2012, 18:47)
- Eric The Gardener (thesweetcheat, Sep 26, 2012, 22:36)
- T S Eliot: Four Quartets (Littlestone, Oct 15, 2012, 16:29)
- Gillian Clarke: Sheila Na Gig at Kilpeck (Littlestone, Nov 16, 2012, 13:25)
- 'twas the night before solstice (Littlestone, Dec 20, 2012, 21:22)
- In Pursuit of Spring (Littlestone, Mar 30, 2013, 22:16)
- Jan Farquharson: The Search for Ancestors... (Littlestone, Aug 11, 2013, 13:03)
- Jeremy Hooker: The Soliloquies... (Littlestone, Aug 20, 2013, 12:10)
- Stonework: Mark Edmonds and Rose Ferraby (Littlestone, Feb 03, 2014, 10:52)
- Ammon Wrigley: On A Yorkshire Moor (Littlestone, May 12, 2014, 10:59)
- Lynn Woollacott: Standing Stones (Littlestone, Jun 24, 2014, 11:42)
- Charles Valentine Le Grice: To A Fallen Cromlech (Littlestone, Apr 06, 2016, 10:45)
- Gillian Clarke: Stone (Littlestone, Mar 06, 2017, 18:34)
- Kim Whysall-Hammond: Herepath (Littlestone, Mar 24, 2017, 17:06)
- Re: Edward Thomas - Lob (moss, Apr 07, 2017, 06:57)
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