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Path in Coole

Path in Coole

But it’s just so…beautiful!

I walked among the seven woods of Coole:
Shan-walla, where a willow-hordered pond
Gathers the wild duck from the winter dawn;
Shady Kyle-dortha; sunnier Kyle-na-no,
Where many hundred squirrels are as happy
As though they had been hidden hy green houghs
Where old age cannot find them; Paire-na-lee,
Where hazel and ash and privet hlind the paths:
Dim Pairc-na-carraig, where the wild bees fling
Their sudden fragrances on the green air;
Dim Pairc-na-tarav, where enchanted eyes
Have seen immortal, mild, proud shadows walk;
Dim Inchy wood, that hides badger and fox
And marten-cat, and borders that old wood
Wise Buddy Early called the wicked wood:
Seven odours, seven murmurs, seven woods.

W.B Yeats
Green Holly

Green Holly

Coole Lough

Coole Lough, with swans

Barna Woods Tree

Tree, Barna Woods, Co. Galway

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

Squirrel

Ireland's only native squirrel species

Chestnut Shell

Chestnut Shell

Barna Woods Bridge

Barna Woods Bridge

Jackdaws on Fence, Killarney

Jackdaws on Fence, Killarney

Pine Needles

Pine Needles

Birds Over Lake

Birds Over Lake