School: St Johnston (2)
- Location:
- Saint Johnstown, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla Bhríghde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1106, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)Till we notice the ebb on the turn
Then we cut straight back in a different track
Content with our luck since the morn.
III
You may win great fame and get a name
In almost any old racket.
It sometimes helps to bring you wealth
To fill your bag and pack it.
and now and then some wrack-cutting men
Excel in what nature taught them.
But I've failed to hear in many a year
Of the wealth their talent brought them.
IV
It is cut to the stumps and thrown in lumps
To be creeled to safer keeping
It is terrible tough when the shore is rough
and the wrack is (if) freely seeping
You slip and slide and scratch your flesh
and sometimes strain an ankle
and your lips draw thin, in a Devilish grin,
When your knee comes plop on a winkle.
V
'Tis swelling work you'd do well to shirk
For 'tis n't for human efforts.
It breaks men fast, though theyr'e game to the last(continues on next page)
