Expedition Day #5

This hasn't come out as well as I had hoped. But it was such an unusual sight I just had to blip it!

It is part of a poem by Edward Thomas called 'The Lofty Sky' and was painted on a barn as you approached the climb to the top of the black mountain ridge. I thought it was a great poem to read as you started the trek to the top.

It reads:
'To day I want the sky,
The tops of the high hills,
Above the last mans house,
His hedges, and his cows,
Where, if I will, I look
Down even on sheep and rook,
And of all things that move
See buzzards only above
Past all trees, past furze
And thorn, where nought deters
The desire of the eye
For sky, nothing but sky.