School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)
- Location:
- Gortalough, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: S. Ó Docraigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 667
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- (continued from previous page)And on their shoulders bore
The corpse of whom they did adore
And ever will deplore.VIV
They marched along bewailing
At a slow and solemn pace
And grief it was depicted
On the brow of every face
They laid his body in the grave
To moulder with the clay
I hope his soul in Heaven Shines
Good Christians for him pray
- Men may boast of foreign coasts and travel to their best
While other bards describe in rhyme the beauties of the west.
Where ere you hail by sea or rail give justice I beseech
There's none so fair beyond compare Lough Arrow's lovely beach.II
Its beauties are so fair beyond much other waters clime
With islands, groves and green clad shore(continues on next page)
