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1. A Caoine for Simon O' Keane

   

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   Alas! that today we should early bemoan him,
   Ochone! that we're called on his loss to regret,
   For his was the heart to be prized when you'd know him -
   A breast in which candour seemed splendidly set,
   A Milesian paternally, equal maternally
   Honor internally externally beamed,
   And Simon O'Keane be remembered fraternally
   While the sun the dear shamrock to rouse yet is deemed;

   That scion of our forest where virtue was shining,
   Where grandeur was beaming is marbled in clay,
   That pure simple mind in Knockane that's reclining
   Was the emblem of friendship while life in him lay
   In rarest of filligree traced is his pedigree.
   From the time that Milesius his barque

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Collins

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Patrick Robinson

   Gender

   Male

   Occupations

   Poet

   Teacher

   Address

   Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry