By The Blackwater Poem by Francis Duggan

Rich green fields stretch on either side of the Blackwater
Grazed on by cattle fit for slaughter
Dark brown waters flows slowly along
And orange breasted robin carols his song.

Sun blazing bright in a clear blue sky,
Salmon and trout jumping for fly
On this pleasant sunday afternoon in May
Green meadows are wearing their wildflower array.

A piebald mare and her colt foal
A leggy creature with hair dark as coal
Shelter from the sun and bees
Under boughs of leafy trees.

A pair of swans as white as snow
In sunlit pool swim to and fro,
I find it hard to describe in words
The beauty of these splendid birds.

Here on clover grass I lie
Under a bright and sunny sky
By a river wide and grand
Flowing through the best of land.