‘On Leaving Wantage, 1972’ by John Betjeman

Section 5

From this wide vale, where all our married lives
We two have lived, we are now whirled away
Momently clinging to the things we knew --
Friends , footpaths, hedges, house and animals –
Till borne along like twigs and bits of straw,
We sink below the sliding stream of time.

© The Betjeman Estate