An American Visits Mr Dickens
Based on an item in the Chatham & Rochester Observer 1879.
My feet are made of fire,
sore to the very bone,
gaiters worn to a thread.
A twenty mile walk is as
nothing to Mr Dickens,
flower-gathering, stair-climbing,
old church yards, new graves -
all are grist to his mill.
He scours the acres
around Gad’s Hill, pausing only
to talk with tramps, children,
inquisitive dogs partaking the air.
Nothing escapes his eye or ear
in Strood, Rochester or Higham
in marsh-mist or water-edge,
everything indeed, which expresses
originality.
His day is a wide net.
My genial companion, Charles,
walks the rich Kent lanes
free to roam the days of his own
experience -
through summer and the years.
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