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Upon her dewy rainbow way, She shall be beautiful and strong

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She'll come at dusky first of day
White over yellow harvest's song

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August a poem by Francis ledwidge

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The cottage where the Ledwidge family lived is now a dedicated museum, preserved as a monument of honour to the poet and his short life

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One can only imagine the gaiety and warmth that was part of Ledwidge's early life in the peasants cottage in Slane

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The basic diet of the Irish was potatoes and milk. However if the diet was poor the conversation and the imagination were rich in imagery

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and the Great Irish Famine was not such a distant memory. Ledwidge like many would have experienced great hardship.

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For, as is well documented the peasant population of Ireland existed in a state of perpetual poverty and hardship

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@FrancisLedwidge francis was the eight child. He was soon working to support his siblings just like the many other Irish peasants

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Yes, following his father's premature death, his mother had nine children to raise on her own. @FrancisLedwidge

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His poor old mother raised him and his siblings through hard toil and labour.

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His life had an early encounter with tragedy when at the age of 4 he lost his father.

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Like many an Irishman, Ledwidge had humble beginnings. The eight child of nine he was born to simple folk

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My Father introduced to me Ledwidge many years ago. On our way to Dublin he stopped off at Slane to show me the birthplace of the poet.

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The Irish for Slane is Baile Shláine, or town of Sláine mac Dela. The small village sits on a steep hillside on the left of the River Boyne.

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Slane is a village in County Meath in Ireland. Francis Ledwidge was born there on August 19 1887.

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"He shall not hear
The Bittern cry
In the wild sky
Where he is lain"

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Francis Edward Ledwidge was an Irish poet killed in World war 1.This twitter account shall be maintained in his memory