School: Robertson (roll number 13372)
- Location:
- Ballintra, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 157
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- It is red, it is yellow, it is gosling green. The King could not touch it no more than the Queen. The pope in his room could touch it as soon, come riddle me that from morning till noon?
RainbowThere was a man of Adam’s race,
He had a certain dwelling place.
It was neither in Heaven nor Earth nor Hell,
But yet in a place where man did dwell?
Jonah in the whale bellyI washed my hands in water,
That was never rain or run.
I dried them in a towel,
That was never wove or spun?
I washed them in the dew and I dried them in the sunThey paved my head they shaved my face,
They brought me from my native place.
With tired horses and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Billy Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Murvagh Upper Glebe, Co. Donegal
