{"id":1036,"date":"2011-11-08T09:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2017-06-25T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T15:05:03","slug":"the-welsh-marches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/11\/08\/the-welsh-marches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welsh Marches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took six and a half hours to reach Machynlleth and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cat.org.uk\/\">CAT<\/a>, and part of this journey was through a gloriously autumnal landscape from Y Fenni to beyond Ludlow where Caer Caradoc slipped into the darkness. \u00a0This is the England I'd live in were I not content in Wiltshire. \u00a0As night came in, and the train eased its way through the Marches and into Wales, I read some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~martinh\/poems\/complete_housman.html\">Housman<\/a> who, while not to everyone's taste, is to mine.<\/p>\n<p>On forelands high in heaven,<br \/>\n'Tis many a year gone by,<br \/>\nAmidst the fall of even<br \/>\nWould stand my friends and I.<br \/>\nBefore our foolish faces<br \/>\nLay lands we did not see;<br \/>\nOur eyes were in the places<br \/>\nWhere we should never be.<\/p>\n<p>`Oh, the pearl seas are yonder,<br \/>\nThe amber-sanded short;<br \/>\nShires where the girls are fonder,<br \/>\nTowns where the pots hold more.<br \/>\nAnd here fret we and moulder<br \/>\nBy grange and rick and shed<br \/>\nAnd every moon are older,<br \/>\nAnd soon we shall be dead.'<\/p>\n<p>Heigho, 'twas true and pity;<br \/>\nBut there we lads must stay.<br \/>\nTroy was a steepled city,<br \/>\nBut Troy was far away.<br \/>\nAnd round we turned lamenting<br \/>\nTo homes we longed to leave,<br \/>\nAnd silent hills indenting<br \/>\nThe orange band of eve.<\/p>\n<p>I see the air benighted<br \/>\nAnd all the dusking dales,<br \/>\nAnd lamps in England lighted,<br \/>\nAnd evening wrecked on Wales;<br \/>\nAnd starry darkness paces<br \/>\nThe road from sea to sea,<br \/>\nAnd blots the foolish faces<br \/>\nOf my poor friends and me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took six and a half hours to reach Machynlleth and the CAT, and part of this journey was through a gloriously autumnal landscape from Y Fenni to beyond Ludlow where Caer Caradoc slipped into the darkness. \u00a0This is the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}