School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 194
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- (continued from previous page)Well, if sometimes we tire of the gamble + song,
Elocution + music, in turn, come along:
Then religion or politics raise a debate
And with Redmond or Wyndham we'll settle the slate!
Tis not that its maidens are fairest on earth_
Nor yet that its liquors are priceless in worth_
Or that partners for "hap" can be had there at will
Oh no there is something more magical still"
Tis that sympathy warm + friendship are there
Ever ready our joys + our sorrows to share;
In our glad moods or sad moods if thither we wend
We shall always find there some congenial friend
Sweetest village and best in this beautiful isle!
On it may contentment + plenty long shule
May its innocent pleasures and(continues on next page)
