<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines On A Visit To Port Fairy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walked Pathway that led through muttonbird colony<br>On Island off Port Fairy by the sea<br>In latter March a bright though breezy day<br>With voice of seagull ringing down the bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On Easter Sunday nineteen eighty nine<br>A breezy day of spasmodic sun shine<br>Sweet scent of sea and tide sound in my ear<br>And weather pleasant for the time of year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Muttonbirds dig their nest holes in the ground<br>And their nest burrows were plentiful all around<br>And I quote from ornithologists who know best<br>That this year same Muttonbird use last year's nest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Parent muttonbirds gone fishing out to sea<br>Leave behind them their nest bound families<br>Their three months old nestlings unable yet to fly<br>Future earth born distant travellers of the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In metre deep burrow in fore shore sand<br>I searched along it's bottom with my hand<br>Felt the soft down feathers of a sea bird's breast<br>A young near full fledged nestling in it's nest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Island off Port Fairy by the sea<br>With voice of seagull ringing down the bay<br>I walked Pathway that led through muttonbird colony<br>On Easter Sunday quite a pleasant day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561740" data-title="Lines On A Visit To Port Fairy de Francis Duggan" data-description="I walked Pathway that led through muttonbird colony On Island off Port Fairy by the sea In latter March a bright though breezy day With voice of seagull ringing down the bay. On Easter Sunday nineteen eighty nine A breezy day of spasmodic sun shi..."></div> </div> </div>

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