School: Drumshanbo (roll number 16846)

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   Because he thinks my hoary head
   Is long since numbered with the dead
   The twang of the evicting force
   Here terminated this discourse

   And the proprietor of the land
   Appeared himself in chief command
   Well mounted on a prancing steed
   Right for the door he did proceed
   And with a supercilious air
   He asked was he occupier there?
   Or had he cash prepared to pay
   His legal dies without delay

   The stranger then in accents clear
   Proclaimed aloud "The cash is here
   And the whole sum whateer it it be
   Forth with shall be advanced by me
   The lordling then sullen brow
   Inquired thus, "Whence comest thou
   The answer was - "It brings no shame
   On me to tell from whence I came

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ellie Gray

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumshanbo, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Pat Higgins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Clooncose, Co. Leitrim