In
Memoria
SAMUEL J. RYAN
a888.1968)
teil Engineer
of
Castlebar, Co. Mayo
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CONTENTS
Lean cana adsl Fsrebin
Tension asp
He oun a
Second Son
relana
‘pil in Connemara
Bellas!
Goorsion Lament
Eighicen Contemporary tik
Lossses
Spring
Wind blown petals le
‘unswepl upon ihe pavements,
darker after tain,
‘The plaintive plovers
tise high, then tumble and cry —
mad cirbome lovers,
On new:bom almond
blossom, uncaring blackbird
cleans his mauday Dil.
summer
Hopetully he casts
‘is ne! on night's dark woters
sneonbeams sither throug:
Grovaqieen wait ot dawn
bones coniedl beacticombels
othe revapipers
Phe seria she theater
Tenge hunslene sheaclow's aciers
Ihe revk churchyard gress,Autumn
September swallows.
nalsy wire chaiterers
but when they have gone
Gusty eddies leave
shilling currents - brown en green,
Geep pools in comers
‘The full orange maon
hangs lamp:lke ftom broken bough
lnkmeén of the nig
Winter
Twilight brings snowtau,
yel drake end duck sill bnge:
on gunmetal lake.
Early morning feast -
snow hieroglyphics tell,
story of theit own.
‘The Jong s0p9 of prints
rags Bunier up the slope ins
‘anticipationSearons
Among bate uplands
‘The mountain sheep stoop and gicwe,
Where the culew cal.
Amaberlinged swallows
Shoot under tow bridges and
Dimple placid ponds
Bare boughs, leatberetl
Stretch sla limbs lowaud tne doy
Sap wil sti eget
Driving, eyerbiinting.
‘Whirling, Iace-freezing snow