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School: An Druipseach

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Dripsey, Co. Cork
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Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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  1. Song - My Inchigeela Lass (continued)

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    No goddess fair in Grecian lay in beauty could surpass.
    That winsome rogue my Máirín óg my Inchigeela Lass.
    III
    Like all the boys along the Lee I joined a rebel band.
    And pledged myself to freedoms cause for Faith and Fatherland.
    An outlaw I was chased from Cork to Keimaneigh's famed pass.
    Thus forced to flee from Erin's Lee and my Inchigeela Lass.
    IV
    Before I from my native land for ever would depart.
    I slipped beyond the soldier's lines to the darling of my heart.
    And when we met beside the Lee her form was mirrored in glass.
    As I bade farewell in a hazel dell to my Inchigeela Lass.
    V
    O'er Muskerry's heights and Sheha's slopes the waning moon shone pale.
    As I clasped her to my heart that night in Céimín's emerald vale.
    And then inside her mother's cot her nimble form did pass.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seán O Tuathaig
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir