The Green Roads Edward Thomas
The Green Roads Pendant
“the green roads”
Two paths in a single forked twig, cast where the green roads divide.
The Story
"The green roads that end in the forest" — Thomas's paths fork and lead in, and not everyone who follows them comes back. We found a single hawthorn twig already forked into two, and cast it whole: one stem, two roads, the choice held in metal.
Hung on a long chain so it falls near the heart, oxidised in the grain and polished along the highs. A quiet pendant about the paths you take, and the ones you only look down.
The Poem
The green roads that end in the forest
Are strewn with white goose feathers this June,
Like marks left behind by some one gone to the forest
To show his track. But he has never come back.
Down each green road a cottage looks at the forest.
Round one the nettle towers; two are bathed in flowers.
An old man along the green road to the forest
Strays from one, from another a child alone.
In the thicket bordering the forest,
All day long a thrush twiddles his song.
It is old, but the trees are young in the forest,
All but one like a castle keep, in the middle deep.
That oak saw the ages pass in the forest:
They were a host, but their memories are lost,
For the tree is dead: all things forget the forest
Excepting perhaps me, when now I see
The old man, the child, the goose feathers at the edge of the forest,
And hear all day long the thrush repeat his song.
The Green Roads — Edward Thomas 1878–1917
Technical Details
- Material
- Recycled sterling silver
- Finish
- Oxidised, polished highs
- Dimensions
- 38 mm forked twig
- Chain
- 500 mm (20") cable, incl.
- Cast from
- Forked hawthorn twig
Made to order in Kraków priced on request.
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