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ON READING FRANCIS LEDWIDGE'S LAST SONGS by JOHN DRINKWATER

Poet Analysis

First Line: AT APRIL'S END, WHEN BLOSSOMS BREAK
Last Line: AS APPLE FLOWERS AT APRIL'S END.
Subject(s): APRIL; LEDWIDGE, FRANCIS (1891-1917);
AT April's end, when blossoms break
To birth upon my apple-tree,
I know the certain year will take
Full harvest of this infancy.

At April's end, when comes the dear
Occasion of your valley tune,
I know your beauty's arc is here,
A little ghostly morning moon.

Yet are these fosterlings of rhyme
As fortunately born to spend
Happy conspiracies with time
As apple flowers at April's end.



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