{"id":137,"date":"2017-01-31T14:50:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-02-08T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T14:54:49","slug":"the-way-through-the-woods-poem-by-rudyard-kipling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audio-recordings\/the-way-through-the-woods-poem-by-rudyard-kipling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way Through the Woods &#8211; Poem by Rudyard Kipling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 31 of 100 days of poetry<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Way Through The Woods - Rudyard Kipling by Rob Goll\" width=\"525\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F306718896&show_artwork=true&maxheight=788&maxwidth=525\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They shut the road through the woods<br \/>\nSeventy years ago.<br \/>\nWeather and rain have undone it again,<br \/>\nAnd now you would never know<br \/>\nThere was once a road through the woods<br \/>\nBefore they planted the trees.<br \/>\nIt is underneath the coppice and heath,<br \/>\nAnd the thin anemones.<br \/>\nOnly the keeper sees<br \/>\nThat, where the ring-dove broods,<br \/>\nAnd the badgers roll at ease,<br \/>\nThere was once a road through the woods.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, if you enter the woods<br \/>\nOf a summer evening late,<br \/>\nWhen the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools<br \/>\nWhere the otter whistles his mate,<br \/>\n(They fear not men in the woods,<br \/>\nBecause they see so few.)<br \/>\nYou will hear the beat of a horse's feet,<br \/>\nAnd the swish of a skirt in the dew,<br \/>\nSteadily cantering through<br \/>\nThe misty solitudes,<br \/>\nAs though they perfectly knew<br \/>\nThe old lost road through the woods.<br \/>\nBut there is no road through the woods.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks for listening<\/em> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robgoll.com%2Fcontent%2Faudio-recordings%2Fthe-way-through-the-woods-poem-by-rudyard-kipling%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audio-recordings\/the-way-through-the-woods-poem-by-rudyard-kipling\/\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audio-recordings\/the-way-through-the-woods-poem-by-rudyard-kipling\/\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.robgoll.com\/content\/audio-recordings\/the-way-through-the-woods-poem-by-rudyard-kipling\/\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 31 of 100 days of poetry They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. 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