You want something a little bit obscure, my fellow Editors-lovin' kitties? How about Mr Smith reading you a poem? This goes way back to 2009 when the BBC had a poetry season, and they enlisted the help of some celebs and musician types to promote it. The video is an animation piece with Tom reading The Way Through The Woods by Rudyard Kipling over it, and I've reprinted it below in full for those of you who are fans of the written word. Enjoy ;)
The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.
Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate,
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few.)
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods ...
But there is no road through the woods.
brought to you with lots of lemming-love :) x
