School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Regis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 163
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- I was walking along in a pleasant place in the county Tipperary.
The scene smiled as happy as the holy face of the blessed virgin Mary.
And the trees were proud and the sward was green.
And the birds sang loud in the leafy scene.
II
Yet somehow I felt strange, and so on I felt sad.
And then I felt very lonely.
I pondered in vain why I was not glad
In a place meant for pleasure only.
For I thought that grief had never been there,
And that sin would as lief to heaven repair.
III
As I stayed on the field, I saw - Oh my God!(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Maher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolnamona, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr Maher
- Gender
- Male
