from WISE MEN SAY

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open ~John Barrymore

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from JOHN'S GALLERY

Little Red Riding Hood, by Gustave Doré

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from POETRY FOR PLEASURE

ADLESTROP

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Yes, I remember Adlestrop -
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop - only the name

And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

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from TAKE YOUR PARTNERS

Ambrose and his Orchestra recorded this number "The Show is Over" in 1934.
The singer is Sam Browne. Thanks to 240252 for uploading it.



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More posts from my other blogs tomorrow.

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