School: Scoil Áine Naomhtha, Ráth gCaola (roll number 6569)

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1. A Song - The Extra Tillage (continued)

   

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   And some we have for exportation
   We have wheat for the millers, to crush and to grind,
   We have rye for the reapers, to cut and to bind,
   We have Rhubarb and lettuce and salad each kind,
   Though we are but a little Nation.
   3.
   The ploughmen are busy on lea and on lawn,
   On each grazing ranch each [?] and each lawn
   Their bustle is heard at the peep of each dawn,
   Their object is more cultivation
   The hoe and the barrow, the shovel and spade,
   They all seem quite happy while on their parade,
   Mechanics are busy, each man at his trade,
   Though we are but a small little Nation.
   4.
   The apple, the cherry, the plum and the pear,
   The strawberry, raspberry, gooseberry

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Violet Hudson

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Rathkeale, Co. Limerick