Back in Nyewood
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 08/06/2020

Back in Nyewood

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I'm back in Nyewood, looking for Nicholas*
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and needing to be back on the South Downs Way
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it's hot in late May, the wild flowers around us
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The hills are before us, the meadows full of hay

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Past Torberry Hill through beeches and yew
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then up a steep track to the high dusty trail
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East 'till mighty Harting Down is in view
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then back  through a forest, the wind on our tail

Through pastures and orchards then up a quiet lane
a tunnel through a cornfield to the brow of a hill
A wide valley, no humans, the buzzard's domain
The Great Plantation, a bridge over a rill

Across the marshland past a white dead tree
to the railway closed in fifty-five
short of water, leg-sore needing tea
But back at our car, glad to be alive


TJD 6/6/20

*Nicholas Nye (poem by Walter de la Mare)