School: Coillte Críotáin
- Location:
- Erris, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóra Nic Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0236, Page 433
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A Local Song (continued)
“Farewell to Boyle, to lakes and all”
(continued from previous page)you
with grim death's icy coil,
Their glory too will yet illume,
The hills and dales of Boyle.
VIII
Farewell, Farewell, old friendly town,
We never more shall meet
And I will wish to see again,
One sight of Chapel Street,
now speed me off to Assylin
There drops a farewell tear
O'er he who sleeps his last sweet sleep
My Father fond and dear
Farewell, Farewell, old chapel,
Where first I knelt to pray,
Where e'r I'll be I'll pray for thee
Be my lot whatee'r it may
When driven from my native town
In foreign lands to toil
but in foreign lands with upraised hands
I'll pray success to Boyle.
- Collector
- Mary Tivenan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornaglia, Co. Roscommon