You remember Davies? He died, you know, with his face to the wall, as the manner is of the poor peasant in his stone Croft on the Welsh hills. I recall the room under the slates, and the smirched snow of the wide bed in which he lay, lonely as an ewe that is sick to lamb in the hard weather of mid-March. I remember also the trapped wind tearing the curtains, and the wild light’s frequent hysteria upon the floor, the bare floors without a rug or mat to soften the loud tread
Of neighbours crossing the uneasy boards to peer at Davies with gruff words of meaningless comfort, before they turned heartless away from the stale smell of death in league with those dank walls. —#RSThomas Death of a Peasant @RSThomasPoet Give rest to Pam, O Lord, and let light perpetual shine upon her.
@danielstroud ‘Death of a Peasant’ - #RSThomas
(An Acre of Land, Montgomeryshire Printing Co)