School: Snaidhm (C.) (roll number 11799)

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1. Poetry about the Weather (continued)

   

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   The moon in halo hid her head
   The brooding shepherd heaves a sigh
   For seeing the rainbow spans the sky
   The walls are damp, the ditches smell
   Close to the pink - eyed Pimpernel
   Hark! how the chairs and tables crack
   Old Betty's joints are in the rack
   Loud quake the ducks the peacocks cry
   And distant hills are looking nigh
   Rush in the heart with velvet paws
   Sits wiping s'er his whisker jaws
   T' will surely rain, I see with sorrow
   Our jaunt must be put off to - morrow
   Farmers looked for the star following the moon always, as they learned from it whith [?] it was safe to leave their hay out or whether it was better to make it up. One night a certain family did not make up their hay and when they went out to look for the star it wasn't there, as they began to make up their hay. They were making the cocks, but as fast as they made them they were knocked again. This went on for some time until at last the farmer himself was struck with a pike. He looked around and he heard a voice say "You have all the day

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Denis Cronin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Sneem, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs O Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gearha North, Co. Kerry