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I had not thought... by Peter Leyland

                                                   ‘I had not thought that it would be like this’   This is the last line of a poem by Charles Causley called  Eden Rock . The poet is looking back at his parents as they were when they were younger and sees them gone ahead from him now beckoning him forward:                                                     ‘See where the stream path is Crossing is not as hard as you might think.’   Charles Causley is a poet that I have good cause to remember. When I began teaching at a tough comprehensive school in Tilbury in the 70s one of my first lessons wa...