Scoil: Ráth Séideóg (uimhir rolla 8786)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Exodus

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Another, yet another, group of exiles take their way

   At morrow's dawn to lands unknown, their signal daylight's earliest ray

   More Irish homes made desolate, more Irish mother's, childless grieve

   Oh! bitter irony of fate that sends the gift, but to bereave.

   
   * * *

   
   The hopeful stripling brave smiles to hide the grief his young heart feels

   And shed, unseen, the bitter tear his manly pride would fain conceal

   The tender maiden's burning eyes o'erflow with limpid crystals pure

   Erstwhile the gayest of the gay sits idly now with looks demure.

   
   * * *

   
   The neighbours come to give good-bye and love and friendship rule the hour

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Brigid Mc Ginley

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Na Bruíonacha, Co. Dhún na nGall