School: Clonin, Mountrath (roll number 15932)
- Location:
- Clonin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 434
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- (continued from previous page)The men all in their thousands
The women led the van
And like that in the days of yore
They swept the Dutchman's clan.Both policemen and soldiers were driven to and fro.
Nor could they get the cattle off the beauteous Ahavoe.IV;
A king once reigned in England,he cursed the very laws.
That deprived him of such subjects and without any cause.
He cursed the selfsame weapons and the magistrates also
That proved his whole destruction on the plains of Ahavoe.V;
Where will I go today, my heart is sore oppressed.
A sorry man am I today and nowhere can find rest.
Sweet sleep have from my eyelids fled
With hair as white as snow
In the cause of an English army
Brought to the plains of Ahavoe.(continues on next page)
