School: Barrlinn

Location:
Inchinarihen, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Chruadhlaoich
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  1. Unpublished poetry composed in this parish in the last century. I got this poem from Mrs. E. Cotter Derrynafinchin Borlinn, Aged 78.
    The Rustic Miner
    My home is in the mountain tops
    My bed's among the willows
    I envy not the lazy fops
    Who lounge on downy pillows
    What care I for a city life
    For nought to me seems finer
    Than to be free from crowded strife
    And be a rustic miner.
    Let farmers prate of cows and bulls
    And soldiers talk of fighting
    And sailors sing cross-yards and hulls
    And lawyers live by writing
    But I'll not swop for any trade
    From governor down to joiner
    Of hard work I was ne'er afraid
    For I'm a rustic miner.
    And when the sun with radiant hue,
    Peeps o'er the eastern mountain,
    To quaff the morning's glistening dew,
    Or gild the rippling fountain
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs E. Cotter
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    78
    Address
    Derrynafinchin, Co. Cork