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HOME by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE

First Line: A BURST OF SUDDEN WINGS AT DAWN
Last Line: THAT CALL ACROSS THE WORLD TO ME.
Subject(s): HOME; IRELAND; RAINBOWS; SUMMER; WORLD WAR I; IRISH; FIRST WORLD WAR;

A burst of sudden wings at dawn
Faint voices in a dreamy noon,
Evenings of mist and murmurings,
And nights with rainbows of the moon.

And through these things a wood-way dim,
And waters dim, and slow sheep seen
On uphill paths that wind away
Through summer sounds and harvest green.

This is a song robin sang
This morning on a broken tree,
It was about the little fields
That call across the world to me.



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