School: Convent of Mercy, An Pasáiste, Corcaigh
- Location:
- Passage West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Siúracha
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- He composed another poem about a tombstone in the churchyard.
There's a stone in our churchyard, ere now I have stood
And bedewed it with tears for the kind and the good
Are sleeping beneath it ; a mother that smiled
In purest affection and love on her child;
A father, a brother and sister are there,
In that lonely spot sleeping the loved and the fair
Nor can sorrow restore then, no mourning or tears
Can bring back the friends of my earliest years.Here's a tear to thieir memory - a prayer for their rest,
A sigh for their loss and a hope they are blessed ;
That hope cheers our bosom a courage instils(continues on next page)
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- W.J. Kearney
