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Vaguely stop and read line in poem (9)

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I believe the answer is:

adlestrop

'poem' is the definition.
(Edward Thomas poem)

'vaguely stop and read line' is the wordplay.
'vaguely' indicates an anagram.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'line' becomes 'l'.
'stop'+'read'+'l'='stopreadl'
'stopreadl' is an anagram of 'ADLESTROP'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Another definition for adlestrop that I've seen is " where Thomas's train halted".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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