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‘Follower’ by Seamus Heaney

‘Letters from Yorkshire’ by Maura Dooley

‘Love’s Philosophy’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘Mother, any distance’ by Simon Armitage

‘Neutral Tones’ by Thomas Hardy

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We stoodby a pond that winter day,

And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,

And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;

– They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove

Over tedious riddlesof years ago;

And some words played between us to and fro

On which lost the more by our love.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing

Alive enough to have strength to die;

And a grinof bitterness swept thereby

Like an ominous bird a-wing….

Since then, keen lessonsthat love deceives,

And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me

Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,

And a pond edged with grayish leaves.

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