School: Ardlow
- Location:
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 074
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Farewell, ye green shades, and ye fair sunny bowers,
With heartfelf affection I bid you adieu,
No more with delight will I spend the sweet hours
Where flowerets and daisies spintaneously grew.
- Dear ancient stream it's twelve long years and more
Since on your banks I stretched my limbs before,
And blest for ever be the happy day
When I first saw you shape your winding way
Around those hills and those impending shades
Those level meadows and bright, sunny glades
Where early Spring smiled in the vale below
And nature bid her fairest flowererts grow
Oft on your banks with nimble hardy swains
In rural mirth I frolicked o'er your plains.
But now, alas, I'm stooping low and lame
|despised alike by fortune and proud fame. Note - On the poet's recovery from his long illness he went down to his favourite river (the Barora flows by Billywood) and on its banks he composed this lay. - Collector
- John Fitzsimmons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardlow, Co. Cavan
