School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 222
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“Long ago there lived in Windsor a poet named John Dooley. ...”
(continued from previous page)Then adieu my love once you're unkind
For ever more adieu
There is none can ease my troubled mind
Since I have parted you.
Tis far beyond the doctor's skill
My freedom to obtain
Since I have parted from you my dear
To never meet again.Sometimes along those pathless rills
I slowly bend my way
Some other on you green hills
I'd spend the live long day.
With heart full sore and heavy agh
In silence I'd remain
Since I have parted from my dear
to never meet again.Oh: had I wealth or had I gold
All treasures I'd resign
All should be bartered, all be sold
To make my darling mine
But she been rich an I been Poor
My live did me disdain
It was that which parted me and her
To never meet again.
- Informant
- Michael Dooley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Glebe, Co. Laois