Francis Ledwidge

19 August 1887 – 31 July 1917 / Janeville, Slane

The Sylph

I saw you and I named a flower
That lights with blue a woodland space,
I named a bird of the red hour
And a hidden fairy place.

And then I saw you not, and knew
Dead leaves were whirling down the mist,
And something lost was crying through -
An evening of amethyst.
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