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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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Lights Out by Edward Thomas

Even then he was still thinking about paths right to the very end, he was thinking about how they ran through him and through the landscape. Years later it took years for her grief to settle, Helen records some of Edward's poems - you heard the first of them or one of them at the beginning. I thought it appropriate to end with Helen again and this is a poem of Thomas's called Lights Out in which as in so many of his poems, Pards and Tracks feature.

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