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1. Local Happenings - The Wreck of the Ferry Boat (continued)

   

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   Impatient with desire
   On some ungrateful folks who're
   To wreck his vengenance dire:-

   Simon Tonry o'er the Cullagh bog,
   Besrides the cloudy air,
   Eident intent to interfere,
   And block the Rathcline fair.

   While Dun Bingham at Rathcline doth wait,
   With feline hungry maw
   To gather all unto hmself,
   He can with drenching flaw

   So that my dear, we will stay here,
   While fairies fret and rave,
   Nor wet our churns, hoops or pails,
   This day in Shannons wave,

   "Good lack" quoth she, "Tis sorry me,
   To be by marriage tie
   Obliged to share life debonair
   With a man of prophecy.

   It has been mine thro' thick and thin,
   To push along the wain

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   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

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