It doesn't seem very long ago since I was a school going boy <br />But now my hair is silvery gray how quick the time did fly <br />It seems like only yesterday since I heard the corncrake cry <br />And young birds chirped in leafy groves in Millstreet in July. <br /> <br />It doesn't seem very long ago seems only like last May <br />Since I last heard the wood pigeons in woodland far away <br />But almost sixteen years have passed since then and that's a lengthy span <br />And the schoolboy then now in his prime and I a ageing man. <br /> <br />It doesn't seem very long ago since fifty three or fifty four <br />Since I first climbed up towards Clara hill through fields of Claramore <br />The little lark was piping in the sunny Summer sky <br />But it's been a long long time ago since I was a young boy. <br /> <br />It doesn't seem very long ago not very long 'twould seem <br />Since I last heard the dipper piping in the mountain stream <br />But the school boy then is a father now and at his peak and prime <br />Still sixteen years doesn't seem that long on looking back in time.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/it-doesn-t-seem-very-long-ago/
