School: Derreenargan
- Location:
- Derreenargan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Fionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0232, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)Yes now we'll see that poverty
and crying
Will soon depart
And for ever more
From Erins shore
No sad or broken heart
In pangs of wool
Be forced to go
Across the stormy foam
For here is found
A house and ground
To labour on at home
For years of strife
The poor mans life
Was worse than any (life) slave
To drive and mow
To plough and sow
'Twould pauper and knave
For each bit he got
Ten drops of sweat
Had fallen from his brow
But now at last That day is past
Thank God its not so now
The men we sent to represent
Our little town you know(continues on next page)
