Replay

This week's poem by John Montague

The fuchsia hedge trembles.

Peer closely. All those small

Scarlet petals are shivering:

A mass of bells silently pealing,

Where the honeybees are clambering;

Like uniformed schoolboys swarming

Up the slope to Armagh Cathedral.

Or a more profane, modern image,

Striped players ceaselessly scoring

Inside those green and scarlet meshes

While the whole hedge trembles.