School: Baile Theas (C.), Malla (roll number 4954)
- Location:
- Ballyhass, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Bríd Bean Uí Dhála
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 069
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- Knocknanuss the hill of sighs
High Cairn above a lonely tomb,
They named thee in a day of gloom
To women’s wailing doleful cries.II
Daughter and mother maid and wife
They came when war’s red work was done.
Mourning for father, lover, son
The gory swarth of battle strife.III
Like speptres in the shadows moved
Stooping to scan a pallid face
Peering through scars and blood to trace.
The features of the men they lovedIV
For I have told an age old tale
Long have both loved and loved ones slept.
And pulseless dust those eyes that wept,
And hearts that break in moan and wail.V
Ah grief of love thou hast no power
To match with death else those would rise
And life leap back to glazed eyes,
And touch and cry of love that hour.VI
And oft in Autumn winds tis said,(continues on next page)
