School: Baile i Meadhon Locha (roll number 344)

Location:
Bellanaman, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Nic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 117

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  3. XML “Fairy Tale”
  4. XML “In Dobbins Flowery Vale”

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  2. I
    One morning fair when Phoebus bright
    His radiant smile displayed,
    When Flora and her gentle Lords
    The fragrant fields arrayed
    As I did rove by wood and grove
    No care did me assail,
    A pair I spied by the river side
    In Dobbin's Flowery Vale.
    II
    In mutual love this couple met
    All with a fond embrace
    The tears like pearly drops of dew
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