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Here is another poem by Edward Thomas

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Home [“Often I had gone this way before”]
BY EDWARD THOMAS
Intro: Dm C Gm, Dm C Dm

Dm C Gm
Often I had gone this way before:
But now it seemed I never could be
Dm
And never had been anywhere else;
F Gm
'Twas home; one nationality
Am Gm
We had, I and the birds that sang,
Am
One memory.

They welcomed me. I had come back
That eve somehow from somewhere far:
The April mist, the chill, the calm,
Meant the same thing familiar
And pleasant to us, and strange too,
Yet with no bar.

Bb Am Dm
The thrush on the oaktop in the lane
C Bb
Sang his last song, or last but one;
Am Gm
And as he ended, on the elm
Bb C Dm
Another had but just begun
C Bb
His last; they knew no more than I
C Dm
The day was done.

Then past his dark white cottage front
A labourer went along, his tread
Slow, half with weariness, half with ease;
And, through the silence, from his shed
The sound of sawing rounded all
That silence said.

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from Edward Thomas, released June 20, 2015

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