Page:The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge, 1919.djvu/58

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52
EVENING IN MAY

It breaks the rhythm of the thrushes' song,
And puts red shame upon his rivalry.
The yellowhammers on the roof tiles beat
Sweet little dulcimers to broken time,
And here the robin with a heart replete
Has all in one short plagiariséd rhyme.