School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0339, Page 141
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Local Songs (continued)
“One Summers early morning as over the fields I strayed”
(continued from previous page)And chieftains long lamented and kinsmen renowned and famed.
VI
Her skin its far whiter and brighter than the Alpine snow
Her cheeks were like the lilly mingled with blooming rose
The lips of my sweep Julia were like ruby so sweet and chaste
Her figure straight and tall
Her small nice and slender waist
VII
The best of all poets I know could not her describe
Shakespeare Swiss nor Chaucer nor Walter of learned fame
Could not tell half the charms of my darling angelic game
And were the crown of France and Spain
In a trance for to be made mine(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Murphy
- Gender
- Female