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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414847" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Unrecorded history. storypoem</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I camped below a rocky tor.<br>Although I'd not been there before<br>It felt somehow familiar.<br>I did not want to drive too far.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had been late in starting out<br>And I had too much about.<br>The Dartmoor fog which frequently.<br>Descended very suddenly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reducing visibility<br>To almost nil immediately.<br>I thought it wise to stay the night<br> and make a start by broad daylight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had chosen to drive this way.<br>Because I was on holiday.<br>A chance to see new scenery<br>I have no one to please but me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had prepared a picnic meal.<br>I sat and ate behind the wheel.<br>The mist descended quietly<br> and hid the rocky tor from me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It formed a blanket thick and white<br>Which softly glowed in the moonlight.<br>It could have been a movie screen<br>And formed a backdropp to a scene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>A scene I never thought to see.<br>A piece of living history.<br>I watched a battle being fought<br>With iron weapons crudely wrought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But still they killed the enemies<br>They fought with great ferocity<br>I saw men kill, I saw men die.<br>Beneath a blue and cloudless sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know they fought long, long ago<br>But just how long I do not know.<br>It might have been the iron age.<br>I do not know enough to gauge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who they were by how they dressed.<br>The battle held my interest.<br>Because the sheer brutality.<br>Which somehow I was allowed to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Projected on a misty screen.<br>Was it real: It might have been<br>Or did I fall asleep and dream.<br>Quite possible so it would seem.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To those inclined to disbelieve.<br>And think I am trying to deceive.<br>Perhaps because they're frightened to<br>Accept that it just might be true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I don't pretend to understand, <br>Why this barren piece of land<br>Which lay below the rock tor<br>Men thought it well worth dying for.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this is now and that was then.<br>Perhaps it's time to think again.<br>I cannot see the world they saw<br>The land they thought worth fighting for.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's probable I'll never know.<br>Why this battle long ago.<br>Was repeated apparently<br>Somehow especially for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a strange experience<br>Which goes against my common sense.<br>A tale I very rarely tell.<br>Dartmoor keeps it secrets well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Friday,21 September 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q>
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Although I'd not been there before
It felt somehow familiar.
I did not want to drive too far.

I had been late in starting out
And I had too much about.
The Dartmoor fog which frequently.
Descended very suddenly.

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