The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling
b"Kipling read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://classicpoetryaloud.podomatic.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to classic poetry.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Way Through The Woods\\nby Rudyard Kipling\\n\\nThey shut the road through the woods\\nSeventy years ago.\\nWeather and rain have undone it again,\\nAnd now you would never know\\nThere was once a road through the woods\\nBefore they planted the trees.\\nIt is underneath the coppice and heath,\\nAnd the thin anemones.\\nOnly the keeper sees\\nThat, where the ring-dove broods,\\nAnd the badgers roll at ease,\\nThere was once a road through the woods.\\n\\nYet, if you enter the woods\\nOf a summer evening late,\\nWhen the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools\\nWhere the otter whistles his mate.\\n(They fear not men in the woods,\\nBecause they see so few)\\nYou will hear the beat of a horse's feet,\\nAnd the swish of a skirt in the dew,\\nSteadily cantering through\\nThe misty solitudes,\\nAs though they perfectly knew\\nThe old lost road through the woods. . . .\\nBut there is no road through the woods."