The years go by too quickly and old age comes too soon <br />For it seems like only yesterday when I heard the angelus bell at noon <br />Ring in the church at Millstreet and on a storm free day <br />It's peals heard in the quiet fields up to a mile away. <br /> <br />It seems like only yesterday when I was a young boy <br />When first I saw the skylark a small speck in the sky <br />And singing ever singing as upwards he did fly <br />Such memories last a life time and such memories never die. <br /> <br />Above the slopes of Clara hill more than half a World away <br />All through the Spring and Summer his descendants sing today <br />The same song as the skylark that I heard sing years ago <br />And life goes on as usual where het and bracken grow. <br /> <br />The whip crack call of the whipbird a bird of mankind shy <br />And the kookaburra's laughter ring in the wood nearby <br />And the crimson rosellas chirping as they fly from tree to tree <br />I know them by their voices now familiar birds to me. <br /> <br />It seems like only yesterday when I heard the robin sing <br />On cypress tree by my old home in April in the Spring <br />And dunnock in the hedgerow chirped in the wind and rain <br />And of my boyhood close to Nature the memories with me remain.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-seems-like-only-yesterday/
