School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 14243)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br Columban Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 322
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The dinner hour is over, and the children are at play,
The pansy and the wall-flower are blooming all so gay,
And I'll go out, and wander through the beauties of the May.
II
On yonder snowy sloe-bush the cuckoo takes her stand,
She "Speaks" of flowers and sunshine to our teeming western land,
And down in yonder "Inch" where the yellow king - cups blow,
The Corn-Crake invites me, so I'll take my hat, and go.
III
Oh! how the hot sun sparkles! but hark upon the gale
A silver sound is floating, and below in that green vale.
The village folks are grouping, Oh! God bless you Thigeen Ruadh,
But you fiddle speaks as brisky as it did then years ago.
IIII
And God love our pretty lasses, faith it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- William Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
