School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)

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1. A Song (continued)

   “In ancient Mucker's wide domain”

   

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   Dark waving woods and vales of green,
   With tranquil dales and hills between,
   Steep hills whose wooded summits hide
   Fair Muckno's dark blue waters wide,
   Here proud Mac Mahon's castle stood
   In lonely Concra's sheltering wood.
   Or Temple crowned the upland fair
   The huntsman sought his quarry there.
   Full often in the early morn,
   The fearless hunter's echoing horn,
   Through silent glens and woodlands rang
   While from its lair the fleet hind sprang,
   Tossed its proud antlers in the air.
   Nor ventured long to tarry there.
   By Muckno's calm and glittering bay.
   The timid hind sped on its way
   Through Concra wood across the vale.
   To seek the heights of Annahale.
   Where lingering yet the dews of night
   Flashed in the early morning light.
   Nor paused on wood crowned hill to view
   If hounds and hunter still pursue.

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   Close by the shore where Muckno's wave,
   To hill and grove reflection gave.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Florence E. Harrison

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumakill, Co. Monaghan