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Lost city

Chapter 13: NEW ROADS
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A collection of lyric poems rooted in Cambridge and its fenlands, blending pastoral observation with elegiac reflection. The verses move between close depictions of river courts, chestnut avenues, college streets and the quiet of fields, and meditations on memory, dreams, and bereavement. Mythic imagery of the underworld appears alongside intimate scenes of loss, mourning, and the persistence of vanished companionship. Recurrent themes include landscape as repository of recollection, the friction between public ritual and private grief, and a desire for renewal or new roads amid enduring sorrow.

NEW ROADS

Of all the winds that drive, be one to guide us
Into new roads, where we no more may be
Haunted of feet that used to walk beside us,
And now lie silently.
Through crowded streets go treading the feet that left us,
In spray-blown lanes they follow our steps like goads;
Oh unrestoring Powers that have bereft us,
Give us, at least, new roads!