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1. Old Songs (continued)

   “The savage loves his native shore,”

   

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   If you're his guest, while e'er you stay,
   his cottage holds a jubilee, his inmost soul he will unlock,

   And if he may your secrets scan, your confidence he scorns to mock,

   For faithful is an Irishman.

   
   Sadie Maria Long
   Strarodden,
   Gleneely.

   Songs obtained from -

   George McCandles,
   Gleneely.

   

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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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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sadie Maria Long

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Straruddan, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   John M. Doherty

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Carndonagh, Co. Donegal