School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)

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1. A Song (continued)

   “In ancient Mucker's wide domain”

   

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   No restless wave in fury beat
   Upon their rock bound lone retreat
   With anxious look they scanned the bay
   Whose tranquil waters round them lay.
   And soon behold! a huge wild boar,
   Swam swiftly to the island shore.
   In haste it climbed the steep hill side.
   And straightway sought the rampart wide.
   Where now the moonlight faintly shone.
   O'er trench and mound and walls of stone.
   The stones by some strange power controlled
   Were down the hillside headlong rolled.
   With hastening steps, by crag and fen,
   The wild boar sought the shore again
   And vision strange! twas seen to take.
   His burden o'er the misty lake.
   The watchers in their corracks rude
   With pliant oars their freight pursued.
   And lo! the spoil was found upon.
   Green Churchill's broad and grassy bawn.
   The wondrous visions of that night,
   Proclaimed to all what Heaven deemed right.
   For on that Isle, traditions tell.
   God willed no monk should ever dwell.

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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