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<blockquote data-quote="tanker" data-source="post: 4307066" data-attributes="member: 10814"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>If I have a favourite poet it's this man,R.S Thomas, by a mile,.. described as a 'strange,crotchety man but with wonderful poems' He wrote a lot about life in the Welsh uplands,often very bleak and dark..this one is an exception,(on the poster it was reproduced on 40yrs+ ago now,the tractor was a Nuffield with no frame which tells us the era it was written in..)</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><a href="https://allpoetry.com/Cynddylan-on-a-Tractor" target="_blank"><u>Cynddylan on a Tractor</u></a></strong></span></p><p>Ah, you should see Cynddylan on a tractor.</p><p>Gone the old look that yoked him to the soil,</p><p>He's a new man now, part of the machine,</p><p>His nerves of metal and his blood oil.</p><p>The clutch curses, but the gears obey</p><p>His least bidding, and lo, he's away</p><p>Out of the farmyard, scattering hens.</p><p>Riding to work now as a great man should,</p><p>He is the knight at arms breaking the fields'</p><p>Mirror of silence, emptying the wood</p><p>Of foxes and squirrels and bright jays.</p><p>The sun comes over the tall trees</p><p>Kindling all the hedges, but not for him</p><p>Who runs his engine on a different fuel.</p><p>And all the birds are singing, bills wide in vain,</p><p>As Cynddylan passes proudly up the lane.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tanker, post: 4307066, member: 10814"] [SIZE=6][B]If I have a favourite poet it's this man,R.S Thomas, by a mile,.. described as a 'strange,crotchety man but with wonderful poems' He wrote a lot about life in the Welsh uplands,often very bleak and dark..this one is an exception,(on the poster it was reproduced on 40yrs+ ago now,the tractor was a Nuffield with no frame which tells us the era it was written in..)[/B][/SIZE] [B][/B] [SIZE=6][B][URL='https://allpoetry.com/Cynddylan-on-a-Tractor'][U]Cynddylan on a Tractor[/U][/URL][/B][/SIZE] Ah, you should see Cynddylan on a tractor. Gone the old look that yoked him to the soil, He's a new man now, part of the machine, His nerves of metal and his blood oil. The clutch curses, but the gears obey His least bidding, and lo, he's away Out of the farmyard, scattering hens. Riding to work now as a great man should, He is the knight at arms breaking the fields' Mirror of silence, emptying the wood Of foxes and squirrels and bright jays. The sun comes over the tall trees Kindling all the hedges, but not for him Who runs his engine on a different fuel. And all the birds are singing, bills wide in vain, As Cynddylan passes proudly up the lane. [/QUOTE]
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