OLD FORT POINT

Hoy, día de mi cumpleaños, me he autoregalado un viajecito a Old Fort Point, lugar de bellas vistas situado en el extremo Norte de la península en la que se encuentra San Francisco, en California. Hasta allí llegan paseantes... alguno de los cuales incluso se da un baño en sus peligrosamente turbulentas aguas.
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"They shut the road through the woods
Seventy years ago.
Weather and rain have undone it again,
And now you would never know
There was once a road through the woods
Before they planted the trees.
It is underneath the coppice and heath,
And the thin anemones.
Only the keeper sees
That, where the ring-dove broods,
And the badgers roll at ease,
There was once a road through the woods.

Yet, if you enter the woods
Of a summer evening late,
When the night-air cools on the trout-ringed pools
Where the otter whistles his mate.
(They fear not men in the woods,
Because they see so few)
You will hear the beat of a horse's feet,
And the swish of a skirt in the dew,
Steadily cantering through
The misty solitudes,
As though they perfectly knew
The old lost road through the woods...
But there is no road through the woods."

Poema "The Way Through the Woods" de Rudyard Kipling.