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Burnley / Cliviger area

 

On the way back home from Burnley to Stacksteads.

We’d been to Towneley park with Patches.

 

Cliviger is a small village, though apparently Cliviger as an area is bigger than Burnley; Cliviger is a red rose village situated between Burnley and the Yorkshire town of Todmorden.

 

In the foreground is a random stone wall built with a sand / cement mortar. My favourite type of wall to build. I love them. Days fly by when you’re building these.

 

On the Pennines

 

Lancashire

 

 

A DREAM PANG

 

Robert Frost

 

I had withdrawn in forest, and my song

Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway;

And to the forest edge you came one day

(This was my dream) and looked and pondered long,

But did not enter, though the wish was strong:

You shook your pensive head as who should say,

‘I dare not—too far in his footsteps stray—

He must seek me would he undo the wrong.

 

Not far, but near, I stood and saw it all

Behind low boughs the trees let down outside;

And the sweet pang it cost me not to call

And tell you that I saw does still abide.

But ’tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof,

For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.

Done