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School: Baile an Mhuilinn

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Milltown, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Rós Nic Airchinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 469

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  1. The Shamrock (continued)

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    Sacred and silent from east to west
    It was blowing upon my breast
    Flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone
    Hath each season taken the rolling stone
    Of my palace lioses' in the flaunting meads
    And my heart keeps over a wound that bleeds.
    My faith my shamrock all bereft
    I guarded the warm that the f hath left
    I wore the sprig on the scaffold's side,
    God's earth be light on the brave who died.
    In the folds of my heart is my shamrock there
    It grew in my love wide spreading
    Fair, and a thousand times dearer than rose or sedge
    Full flowering by the great sea's edge.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Rita Carty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ardtrasna, Co. Sligo