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   VII
   God! Have I not the same sight seen the same red woe withstood.
   I found the hearthstone clotted with my murdered parents blood.
   I found my wife and children swinging naked on a tree.
   The listeners face was whiter than the snow upon the lea.

   VIII
   And for a moment just it seemed as if his soul had fled.
   And his eyes glazed in their sockets with the cold stare of the dead.
   He flung himself upon the sod and looked up in the air.
   A Cross from out his bosom drew, now heaving broad and bare.

   IX
   A tear fell on the Holy Sign, his comrade’s hand he took.
   Sleeps she in holy earth he cried with stern unbending look.
   Yes, yes at dawning of the day I placed her in her grave.
   Beside the old brown Abbey wall, oerlooking Barrow wave.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máiréad Ní Huiteacháin

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Denis Drennan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Occupation

   Gamekeeper

   Address

   Cloney, Co. Kildare