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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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The Path of the Children

Helen Thomas was first Edward Thomas's wife and then she was his widow. And she was speaking late in her life and she was reading the path, which Thomas wrote on 6th March 1915 from draft to more or less complete version in a single day. If the poem can be said to be about one path, it would be the path that Thomas's own children walked to school through the wooded chalk uplands of the south down,. near the well-named village of Steep in Hampshire.

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