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Time to make our way into Cambridge and swim at the delightful Jesus Green
outdoor pool in the city in the afternoon. However, we were to return as we had
yet to find Byron’s pool further upstream of the Mill Pond.

We found the car park near the bridge and negotiated the track through the
trees to the pool. On our way we met a grey squirrel scampering along and then
disappearing over a large hanging branch. The early evening sun had begun to
fade a little but still shone brightly over the pool. Sadly in more recent times, a
rather unsightly weir had been built and I was left to imagine how it looked in
Byron’s day. Brookes wrote of his great friend:

Still in the dawnlit waters cool
His ghostly Lordship swims his pool,
And tries the strokes, essays the tricks,
Long learnt on Hellespont, or Styx

My imagination began to run riot as I thought of these great poets, writers and
philosophers, Brooks, Byron and Woolf often enjoying their swim nude. The
freedom of it all captured for me the spirit of the moment! Could I? Should I? I
swam around for a little while imagining how Byron, Woolf and Brookes must have
felt, a moment in time, a moment to treasure
After I emerged from the waters and started to dress, a couple of fishermen
emerged from the trees. Perhaps Byron didn’t care who came along the footpath
in his day. He was king of all he surveyed, he had the moral authority to do
whatever he liked and for just a while, I was him....

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