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Where’er you walk
Cool gales shall fan the glade
Trees where you sit
Shall crowd into a shade…
On Valentine’s Day, Jack thanked me for the scarlet Porsche which appeared outside our front door first thing; in the way of these things, it was gone by tea time.
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For more on Ernest Wilson, see Eliot Tozer, "On the trail of E.H. Wilson," Horticulture, November 1994:59
Walking Home by Simon Armitage is published by Faber & Faber