At School

John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)



The bees are in the meadow
And the swallows in the sky;
The cattle in the shadow
Watch the river running by.
The wheat is hardly stirring;
The heavy ox-team lags;
The dragon-fly is whirring
Through the yellow-blossomed flag.
And down beside the river,
Where the trees lean o'er the pool,
Where the shadows reach the quiver
A boy has come to school.
His teachers are the swallow
And the river and the trees;
His lessons are the shallows
And the flowers and the bees.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABABCDCEFGFGAHDH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 458
Words 87
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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