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School: Bán-Tír (C.) (roll number 2804)

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Bántír, Co. Chorcaí
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Síle, Bean Uí Dheadaigh
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    Soothing the sorrowing, sad hearts of men –
    Prayerful and pitiful
    Rising like incense –
    Floating all Heaven-ward through the still air;
    I sing of the Bells –
    Bright, blessed and beautiful,
    The sweet Convent Bells – the Bells of Kenmare.
    II
    Hear them at eventide,
    Down by the river-side
    Ringing through gorges – rough, splintered and wild,
    Rolling their liquid notes
    Free from their brazen throats.
    Hymning of Heaven to parent and child.
    Erect stand the mountain deer,
    When the soft sound they hear.
    Flushed are the notes of the throstle, so rare,
    As he lists to the chiming,
    And mystical rhyming
    Of the Bells bright and blessed – the Bells of Kenmare.
    J. C. Deady
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    J C Deady
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