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Rivers, meadows and long straight, Roman roads.
They have had the tarmac removed and the colour is a pale yellow.
Sandstone, lime and dust.
In the future we will never have to lust,
for the things about the countryside that we wish were the same as they were a thousand years ago.
I have fallen in love with the past.
I do not know why it brings a tear to my eye.
Not in a poetic way, just because I am so upset about the way that things are going.