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School: Áth Treasna (C.) (roll number 16648)

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Newmarket, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhurthile
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  1. A Local Poem - To a Friend

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    (Answer to Reveries preceding poem)
    Little dream you friend "Zero" in your Island home to day
    That your gentle lay is humming by admirers far away,
    Little think you, that a copy should be wafted 'cross the sea,
    And tho' marked and stained by travel at length it reaches me,
    Then, Oh! my "Island songbird" how glad to hear from you.
    You waft me back now once again to the banks of the Dalua,
    How swiftly time has since rolled by, what changing climes we've seen,
    Since comrades, we together strayed within the Island Green.
    What visions then were seen by us, what castles built we there
    Not a dream of a tomorrow - that we'd ever know a care.
    (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
    Informant
    Mr Cashin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kanturk, Co. Cork