School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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- (continued from previous page)Oh what a scene I here disclose,
Equipped and furnished in the van,
With scythes and forks was every man
Then courage and determination,
Supplied the wand of organisation.
(6th) Both parties with unslackened pace
Proceeded on till face to face,
And then with deadly weapons raised
Upon each other fiercely gazed,
Now these were moments you may learn
Of very grave and deep concern
I thought e'er that one line I wrote
I heard the buglers battle note
Comomingly with a mighty cheer
Rebreveating far and near,
I thought the clash of deadly battle
Did like a tempest rage and rattle
And that the earth though capped with hoar
Got crimson dyre with human gore,
I thought I saw the foreman real
Beneath the prongs of clotted steel.
And that heard the fearful tones
Of madden shrieks of dying groan,
(7TH) But my impressions now again
Were but delusions false and vain
Though certainly the test was nigh
As eager eyes could well descry(continues on next page)- Informant
- Patrick Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clooncose, Co. Leitrim