The Way Through The Woods - By Rudyard Kipling - Read by James Kingdon

They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a path through the woods
Before they planted the trees:
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ring’d pools
Where the otter whistles his mate
(They fear not men in the woods
Because they see so few),
You will hear the beat of a horse’s feet
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods ...
But there is no road through the woods.

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Hi, I’m James Kingdon. I’m a voiceover artist & actor based in London. I’ve set up this channel because I wanted to share my passion for poetry, beautiful scenery and creating voices with you.

Every poem is specially chosen to uplift, to add light and connection to your day. My partner Joanna and I love to wander the UK countryside filming footage we find beautiful, and Joanna then edits it all together, often with music and sound effects from FreeSound.

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