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memories of alderney


  when wallisdown was just a roman track
      for heavy wooden cartwheels
      when just rabbits habitat-ed all of the downs
      the gypsy kids played in gypsy town
      a fortune then was half of a crown

      when ensbury park twas an old horse race track
      the grass was tall and spread out and back
      across the Talbot heath woods gravel tracks

      the heathers song was buzzed
      by hordes of merry bees in the fuzz
      the church bells rang out
      across the village green
      from millhams lane to ringwood road
      little wayside country inn
      home of rest to all that were a traveling
      twas quite a scene

      when many walked the gravel track to wimborne bridge
      across the lanes of hills n ridge
      cows brought back from the market towns stalls
      through ferndown haunts and kinson moors
      they called out to the heifer crews
      along that road that led to Poole

      the pines were oh so tall n proud
      all their branches wore a shroud
      of green n browns n pollen flowers
      to delight young girls for many hours

      days long afore the cars took oer
      those lanes n gravel tracks that were
      dartford warblers were fine birds
      their songs were often heard

      now all thats left are memories
      of all those walks that used to be
      before the tower park complexity
      covered up whats left by alderney








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