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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 410

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0163, Page 410

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    (continued from previous page)
    is about two hundred people.
    There was a song composed by a blind man the name of Thomas Madden a native of Rathlee. The song he composed was the town of Sweet Rathlee.
    A Song The Town of Sweet Rathlee
    (I)
    Kind friends we'll meet in love to night on Columbus tranquil shore,
    Three thousand miles from Ireland we never shall see more
    But dearer still is Croc-an-hill than any place to me
    Sure it is my own and my native home and they call it Sweet Rathlee

    (II)
    How dear to me is memory sweet recollection brings,
    How often did wer listen to the thrush and black-bird sing,
    And softly does the cuckoo call from our the hallow-tree- (?)
    Far sweeter notes would echo round the tower of "Sweet Rathlee."

    (III)
    It deeply planted in my mind, those places I have seen
    From Carrowmacbrine to Easkey town, and along the road to Skreen,
    The lake and grove round Temple view
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Kennedy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathlee, Co. Sligo