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Songs-in-a-Bottle Pete's Songs in a Bottle

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In Bradgate Park

drive to Newtown Linford beside the church and then park the car
cross the wall by ladder, or just perambulate through the gate if it's left ajar
nearby Cropston reservoir

from the hilltop vantage point where Old John and his tankard stand
facing the War Monument and beyond it the sprawling vista of Midlands land
doesn't Leicestershire look grand ?

in Bradgate Park on Sunday morning
where the fern and bracken court the Sunday breeze
in Bradgate Park on Sunday morning
Sunday laugh and Sunday dance and Sunday smile and Sunday sing as Sunday please

of the manor house only redbrick ruins can now be seen
once the childhood home for a girl called Lady Jane Grey beheaded the nine-day queen
she was only sweet sixteen

Mr Bennion's land in its natural state now preserved for good
charming Charnwood Forest beside the charniodiscus fossils of Swithland Wood
where volcanic forest stood

some three hundred deer tamely roam the crags' curiosities
tiny river Lin saunters and meanders by stunted hollowed out old oak-trees
bubbling freshness in the breeze

(Dismush exploring and sniffing happily - when Dad let him off the lead)

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