A Male Chaffinch Is Singing Poem by Francis Duggan

A voice from the past that to memory belong
In fancy i do hear the male chaffinch on song
On a leafy birch tree in the prime of the May
From where i now live in distance far away
A voice i grew to love when i was a boy
Good memories do remain as a source of joy
Of a pink breasted feathered songster of the spring of the year
His twittering song such a joy for to hear
The great gift of memory such a marvelous thing
My thoughts often take me to a far away Spring
When bluebells were in bloom on the ditch of the bohreen
So pleasant the memories of beauty i have seen
A male chaffinch is singing on a leafy birch tree
And nature is at her greenest everywhere around me.