Kirkstall In May

As healthy and lush as they ever have been The paddocks of Kirkstall today looking green In the late southern Autumn Winter nearing with each passing day The weather quite cool and wet even for May A forecast high for the day of sixteen degrees With just a few showers and only a slight breeze Yet with this sort of weather you won't hear farmers complain Since after a warm and dry Summer the countryside does need rain The Summer has gone and with her took her wildflowers But Kirkstall looks lush and green in the late Autumn showers The sheep putting on weight in grass to their knees And few leaves yet brown on the deciduous trees And the calendar Winter is not far away Near the end of the Autumn in Kirkstall in May.