School: Caladh na Feirsde (roll number 13481/2)
- Location:
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Luain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0433, Page 212
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- (continued from previous page)No comfort next day is the bottle.
IV
See Babylon famous for monarchs who swayed
The sceptre of states and of riches
The Jews they led capture and long did enslave
Subjected like beasts to their wishes
Yet drinking had taught them the Lord to defame
His sacred vessels with pleasure to drain
For which that proud city was filled with a flame
One night as an angel predicted.
By drinking they hardened in habits of vice
Proud Satan himself could scarce tell of such crimes
As drew from the Heavens a deluge of fire
O horrid desire of the bottle.
V
See Noah soon after the deluge resign
To the pleasures of wine all his senses
He lay in a posture for moment's decline
Which virtue desires not to mention
Unnatural Ham in a transport did view
He called on his brothers the mirth to renew
Which drew down a curse on that stubborn crew
O cursed be the use of the bottle.
VI
Beware then, O Man, of the pleasures of wine
A road that is wide to destruction
And leads a far off from the mansions divine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamas Ó Luain
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
