Our South Downs Way walk is slowly getting closer to the end. We completed another two sections, from Upper Beeding to Housedean Farm near Lewes. This time we got to the start of the walk early enough to witness the sunrise. It was an unforgettable experience. The air was still cold and fresh, but the sun made us feel warm. The fog rolled in and the silence was only broken by skylarks' beautiful song. I will miss the South Downs when we finish...
Paths that cross will cross again
Patti Smith
I love roads:
The goddesses that dwell
Far along invisible
Are my favourite gods.
Roads go on
While we forget, and are
Forgotten as a star
That shoots and is gone.
On this earth ’tis sure
We men have not made
Anything that doth fade
So soon, so long endure:
The hill road wet with rain
In the sun would not gleam
Like a winding stream
If we trod it not again.
They are lonely
While we sleep, lonelier
For lack of the traveller
Who is now a dream only.
From dawn’s twilight
And all the clouds like sheep
On the mountains of sleep
They wind into the night.
The next turn may reveal
Heaven: upon the crest
The close pine clump, at rest
And black, may Hell conceal.
Often footsore, never
Yet of the road I weary,
Though long and steep and dreary,
As it winds on forever...
Edward Thomas
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