I'M A Boy Again Poem by Francis Duggan

I wish that i could turn back the hands of time
To many years before i reached my prime
To live again the wonderment of a boy
And the carefree sort of life i did enjoy
Of years of life i now have lived three score
And i live far from old Hibernia's shore
It has been twenty years since I've last heard the robin sing
And out of Ireland this my twentieth Spring
On the mossy ditch beside the old bohreen
The snowdrops, primroses and bluebells now are seen
And in flights of fancy i can hear the rill
Go babbling by the hedgerow down the hill
And though my youth has gone the memories remain
And in my flights of fancy I'm a boy again.