It Has Been More Than Thirty Years

It has been more than thirty years since i saw Hibernia's shore Or stood on Clara's slopes above high Claramore Where on a clear day one can see for kilometers around The beautiful views of Duhallow and Sliabh Luachra from the higher ground And on my flights of fancy i can see again In Summer in the dark pool of a drain Swimming with tails a wriggle the young future frogs Of the damp fields and the rushy bogs The fields where i grew to love Nature as a boy And learning of her ways today i do enjoy Far from the waterways of the dipper and brown trout In this great Country in the sunny south And the past is now just a memory for me Of long gone years and the what used to be.