Lakeland Dipper (further afield) 46

Wain Wath Waterfall, near Keld

Popped into North Yorkshire. It's astonishing how identifiably (extra) different the landscape is in just a few miles from Kirkby Stephen. I headed over to look at the Muker Meadows (extra). 

'Time does not bring relief; you all have lied' - Edna St.Vincent Millay

Time does not bring relief; you all have lied   
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!   
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;   
I want him at the shrinking of the tide; 
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,   
And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;   
But last year’s bitter loving must remain 
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.   
There are a hundred places where I fear   
To go,—so with his memory they brim.   
And entering with relief some quiet place   
Where never fell his foot or shone his face   
I say, “There is no memory of him here!”   
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.

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