Just One Memory Of Nature Poem by Francis Duggan

I've been a student of Mother Nature but for how long I cannot say
Ever since I've been a young boy in a Country far away
From this great Southern Land of Australia about Nature I got to know
In North Cork in Duhallow where the great Blackwater flow
On it's long journey to Youghal where it flows into the sea
But the years have left me older time too did not wait for me
Since I first fell in love with Nature more than five decades ago
When in the Winter we tracked foxes by their paw prints in the snow
Across the snow covered fields and over ditches all the way up to their den
That was hidden in the rank scrub in the sandy sandpit glen
Just one memory of Nature one could live forever more
For as long as the great rivers flow on to the ocean shore
She amazed me as a young boy more than fifty years ago
And I love her now as always yet little of her I do know.