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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh

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Ballylosky, Co. Donegal
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An tSr. A. Nic Fhionnlaoich An tSr. M. Beinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1115, Page 242

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  1. Old Songs (continued)

    “The savage loves his native shore,”

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  2. An Emigrant's Grave

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    Lines written on witnessing the remains of an Irish emigrant consigned to the deep.

    The foaming waves, the exiles grave
    No burial rites beseeming:
    Nor book, nor bell, nor shroud, nor shell,
    Nor eyes of sorrow streaming!

    As o'er the side, the planks doth slide
    The corpse is seen descending.
    The hammock round the body wound,
    His comrades o'er it bending.

    And one short prayer is uttered there,
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