'A Coastal Summer Morning

How graceful to watch in the calm Summer sky
Above the white beach the silver gulls fly

And in the warm morning air in the park by the sea

The familiar voice of the dainty pee wee
The flutes of the magpies so pleasant to hear

The birds who do sing every day of the year
In their breeding Season in late Winter to mid

Spring they sing in the night
A marvel of Nature a thing of delight

People out walking their dogs in the early morning sun

Whilst others for exercise along the beach run
And small groups of walkers young women their hair blowing in the breeze

Seem happy and carefree and with their life at ease

And the young birds are chirping on the sunlit trees

On a beautiful morning of around twenty degrees.



Francis Duggan'