School: Coolfore (roll number 10700)
- Location:
- Coolfore, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 346
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- (continued from previous page)The act would cost him dearly, if the news would reach the Crown
It would leave him on the King's highway, to go either up or down.
III
The school hours being all over, and now its home, sweet home.
Home touches every Irish heart no matter where we roam
We threw snowballs at each other, till we parted one by one
And I turned home quite happy by the setting of the sun.
I stood the scene most bravely, the truth I tell to you
Still in hopes to meet a better day, than the one that I went through
When I sighted the old homestead, it gave me hope anew
The fields were covered deep in snow, as far as I could view.
My mother in the garden and she gathering up the hens
My father at the gable and he busy bruising whins
My sister washing praties and my brother(continues on next page)
