Nature
In France
From Last Songs (1918)
NatureHistory & Politics
The silence of maternal hills
Is round me in my evening dreams;
And round me music-making bills
And mingling waves of pastoral streams.
Whatever way I turn I find
The path is old unto me still.
The hills of home are in my mind,
And there I wander as I will.
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Codex Note
'The silence of maternal hills / Is round me in my evening dreams.' A short poem from the front, written 3 February 1917, of memory of home.
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MLA
Ledwidge, Francis. “In France.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/53/.
Chicago
Ledwidge, Francis. “In France.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ledwidge/53/.
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