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“To A Late Poplar” by
Patrick Kavanagh
🇮🇪
(
21 Oct 1904
–
30 Nov 1967
)
Not yet half-drest
O tardy bride!
And the priest
And the bridegroom and the guests
Have been waiting a full hour.
The meadow choir
Is playing the wedding march
Two fields away,
And squirrels are already leaping in ecstasy
Among leaf-full branches.