Reminds Me Of Green Places Far Away Poem by Francis Duggan

Through a green vale with hills on either side
The river near the sea flows deep and wide
Reminds me of a place I used to know
When I was younger many years ago.

My mind is full of memories today
Of green old places from here far away
Where dipper dark brown river bird with breast as white as snow
Sang on a rock around where stream waters flow.

Where my love for Nature did begin to grow
Though of her ways there is so much to know
I love her and suppose I always will
Until the heart that beats in me is still.

As rain clouds gather in the Autumn sky
From branch to branch of pink flowering gums the honeyeaters fly
Of dark and gray and on wings a strip of gold
The new holland honeyeaters lovely to behold.

I marvel at the beauty around me
Where the river deepens as it nears the sea
Reminds me of green places far away
I knew before the years had left me gray.