School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)
- Location:
- Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 69
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- (continued from previous page)'Twas there I spent my childhood days,
And there to boyhood grew;
Its mossy slopes and leafy ways,
Full well I loved and knew!
Bird-nesting and collecting flowers
I've roved through brake and ben -
Too fleeting were those happy hours
(On) In Cregnahorna glen!The river 'mong the shady trees
Meanders clear and calm;
And woodbine fragrance scents the breeze
On Labby and Ben-Tam
There, wildbirds nest, and choice wild flowers
Bloom in profusion when
Dame Nature decks the fragrant bowers
In Cregnahorna glen. There boys and girls, on Sundays eves,
Assembled on the green,
And danced, beneath the hazel leaves,
Till dusk closed o'er the scene
The echoes mocked their laughter gay-
Long years have flown since then!
And I, today, am far away
From Cregnahorna glen!(continues on next page)
