School: Cill Bhriotáin (B.) (roll number 14116)
- Location:
- Kilbrittain, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Riagáin
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“I lie in my bed as I will lie in my grave.”
I lie in my bed as I will in my grave. I ask God to be my father the Blessed Virgin to be my mother. Heaven to be my bed and four Angels to guard me. I put my trust forever. O Mary, pure, in thee. Then show thyself a mother and daily succour me. And when death's hand shall touch me, Thy pity I implore; Oh, lead me dearest Mother, To God - for evermore.
There are four corners in my bed. There are four Angels in its spread. St. Martin, Mark, Luke and John, God bless the bed that I lay on, And If I die before I wake I hope that God my soul will take.
- Collector
- Timothy Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilbrittain, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Crowley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilbrittain, Co. Cork