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1. The Hills of Donegal (continued)

   

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   Of the goblins and the fairies, of the rath and fairy dell,
   I love the scenes of childhood, which my memory can recall,
   'Mong the heath clad the cloud-capped hills the hills of Donegal.

   I love to muse upon the past, when bravest deeds were done,
   When martial feats or learning deep reward and glory won,
   When brave men answered cheerily: the slogan's fierciest call
   From the heath-clad hills, the cloud-capped hills, the hills of Donegal.

   I love them for the time: when not by war and strife
   The clansmen who inhabit shall waken into life,
   And for their tops shall pass the clouds that darken like a pall
   The heath-clad hills, the cloud-capped hills, the hills of Donegal.

   I love them still, my native hills, though far from them I stray

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Brigid Mc Ginley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Breenagh, Co. Donegal