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  • Writer: Alan Millard
    Alan Millard
  • Apr 14, 2022
  • 1 min read

An encapsulation of a well-known poem in 4 lines


These addled musings point to nothing much:

A railway Halt, a cough, a hiss, some trees,

Dry haycocks, heat haze, endless fields and such,

Small wonder Beeching banished lines like these!

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