In May
In a nook That opened south, You and I Lay mouth to mouth. A snowy gull And sooty daw Came and looked With many a caw; “Such,” I said, “Are I and you, When you’ve kissed me Black and blue!”
J. M. Synge
In a nook That opened south, You and I Lay mouth to mouth. A snowy gull And sooty daw Came and looked With many a caw; “Such,” I said, “Are I and you, When you’ve kissed me Black and blue!”
Two lovers find a warm, south-facing hollow and lie close, mouth to mouth. Their privacy is interrupted, gently, by a pair of birds: a white gull and a black jackdaw, which settle nearby and make a noisy fuss. The speaker points to the birds and jokes that they are like the two of them.
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