School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 307
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- (continued from previous page)and passes Mount Salem where there’s wealth in store
nigh to Coltrain like the surgin main
it tares its banks with eagerness to meet the Nore
it joins in Cranna where beauteous Glora
Bedecks its banks with variegated flowers
The muddy waters becomes transparent
When purified by the fame Delour.4th
The trout and salmon do float in union
With numbers of the aguis trane
There not contented when circumvented till
they approach this delicious stream
the smaller species of the feathered trane
by hawk or eagle was ne’re devoured
but strains its throat with harmounis notes
in chanting praises of the fame Delour5th
For healthful bathing in summer season
It far surpasses the sea or spa
If royal fair maidens would try experience(continues on next page)
