I Am From The Fields

I am from the fields where the waterways meet
The green countryside near the town of Millstreet
In Claraghatlea from here far away
I first looked on the bright lamp of day
The past may be gone but the good memories remain
Of the old fields i may never walk on again
Where i grew to love Nature when i was a boy
And learning of her ways today i enjoy
Yet so little of Nature's ways i can claim to know
For many years i have lived far from where Finnow waters flow
In the fields where the rushes in clusters do grow
On towards the ocean bound Blackwater it babbles on slow
And on my flights of fancy i do see again
Old Clara half cloaked in the gray fogs of rain.