Page:The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge, 1919.djvu/166

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THE PLACE

Their airs shall be the blackbird's twilight song,
Their words shall be all flowers with fresh dews hoar.—
But it is lonely now in winter long,
And, God! to hear the blackbird sing once more.