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In France

The silence of maternal

Is round me in my evening dreams ;

And round me music-making

And mingling waves of pastoral streams.

Whatever way I turn I

The path is old unto me still.

The hills of home are in my mind,

And there I wander as I will.

This poem taken from "Last Songs" by Francis Ledwidge,

Published by Herbert Jenkins,

London 1918 [page 51]Poem Dated: February 3rd, 1917.

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Francis Ledwidge

Francis Edward Ledwidge (19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917) was an Irish war poet and soldier from County Meath.[1] Sometimes known as the "poet of …

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