Amhran na bhFiann

Though i have not lived in Ireland for some twenty four years
Everytime i hear someone singing Amhran na bhFiann i do feel close to tears
Though i am not patriotic have never been in any way
The latent love of homeland remains in me today
The Irish National Anthem written by Peadar Kearney going back decades in time
A song i often heard sung in Ireland as a boy and in my life's prime
At big social gatherings and sporting occasions the anthem often sung
When i hear it now it takes me back to the days when i was young
Perhaps i'll never again see the wildflowers of the May
Or watch the swallows flying above the old fields far away
And due to absence the bond of friendship forged in younger years in time does not seem to last
But the anthem of the homeland takes every migrant to the past
Amhran na bhFiann or The Soldiers Song stirs the nostalgia in me
To think it had died a natural death shows how silly i must be.