February In Duhallow

The cattle in the farmyard sheds bellowing for silage or hay
It is cold and wet in Duhallow on this February day
Swollen by heavy rain and showers of sleet and the melting of snow
The Blackwater bank high in the old fields with a loud babble does flow

On it's journey of one hundred kilometers or more
That ends somewhere beyond Youghal at the Atlantic shore
On it's way it receives the waters of every north and east Cork river, stream and drain
That often flows bank high swollen by heavy rain

In Duhallow in February the sun seldom does shine
And the weather is more often cold and wet and windy than fine
The summits of the Boggeragh Ranges often cloaked in fogs of gray
Though Spring is drawing nearer with the dawning of each day

February in Duhallow is a cold and wet time of year
And on the bare deciduous trees birdsong one does not hear
But it is not that long till the coming of Spring
When the trees will grow leaves and the nesting birds will sing.