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

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Of a summer evening late, 

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When the night-air cools
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on the trout-ringed pools 

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Where the otter whistles his mate, 

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(They fear not men in the woods, 

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Because they see so few.) 

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You will hear the beat of a horse's feet, 

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And the swish of a skirt in the dew, 

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Steadily cantering through 

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The misty solitudes, 

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As though they perfectly knew 

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The old lost road through the woods.

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But there is no road through the woods.
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