Last summer I was walking along

The line of an old railway

When I came across

The statue of an evacuee

Sitting on a bench

At a refurbished country station

A small plaque explained

That her name was June Rodgers

And that five years before my visit

She had returned to Ropley Marks

To unveil her statue and meet others

Who had been evacuated to the village

During those turbulent but memorable years