08 March 2014

Fordham, Cambridgeshire

... The Hedgerow Poet James Withers lived here!

The footpaths leading through the fields and grove,
Where once a careless boy I loved to rove
Are overturned by the encroaching plough;
And I should trespass if I walked there now.

James Reynolds Withers, 1812-92

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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