School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)

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1. The Gray Stone on the Heath (continued)

   

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   5. ‘Twere like in those wanderings at eve he met
   At the curve of the valley there
   ‘Mong the heather bells with dew drops wet,
   A maiden surpassing fair.
   Whom he loved and brought to his shepherd’s cot,
   From her home by the brooklet’s side
   To share his hamlet and fleecy flocks
   A radiant and happy bride.

   6. All else is told by this rock, crowned spot:
   How the loved one sickened and died
   How the shepherd bore her away from the cot
   Up the slope of the Crown hillside
   And buried her deep ‘mong the startled sheep
   That, noting their altered mein,
   Stood watching their masters in huddled groups
   As though they had strangers been.

   7. The shepherd often at evening came
   To sit and mourn his love
   And brought his chair ‘Tis the very same
   That is there on the hill above
   Near the grave-stone gray: and for many a day
   He sat in that lonely seat,
   Till the rock below received the print
   Of the sorrowing giants feet

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2. Daniel McDonald and the Fairies

   

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   1. Old Daniel McDonald, the fiddler, sat
   At eve on the Fairy Knowes [sic],
   That rise from the smooth green, grassy flat,
   Where the sheep and the cattle browse.
   He was weary and worn, and he sat to think
   And played him a lonely tune
   As the sun in the west was beginning to sink
   Giving place to the rising moon.

   2. ‘Twas a sad, sad tune that he softly played,
   With a slow and solemn measure:
   And the sun on the mountain top delayed
   As loath to forego the pleasure,
   A glorious sight! The western sky
   Was one bright golden glow
   That hollowed the top of the mountain high
   And melted away below.

   3. Till the erstwhile lonely and cold grey earth,
   With its glory was all replete
   From the mountain top where the rays got birth
   To where, near the minstrel’s feet,

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   James Mc Loughlin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tievebrack, Co. Donegal