School: Baile Stiabhna, Askeaton (roll number 7900)
- Location:
- Ballysteen, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 399
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- An Evening by the ShannonThe sun has halv'd his daily track
Neath screens of thickening vapour;
The fruitful last was hung with black
which cast a gloom on Nature;
The winds rushed wildly from their caves,
That made e'en rocks to shiver,
As on I went to see the waves
Which graced the Shannon River.Its waters lashed with sounding force
The steeps which there opposed it;
Each wave rushed back with murmurs hoarse
In spray which then composed it.
Here Beigh's great castle proudly looks
Upon those waters waging,
And, wig crowned, it frowning mocks
At all their useless raging.They seem to howl revengeful spite
For days of human slaughter
When this black home sent thieves at night
To pirate o'er the water.
But many a wave, in frothing rage
And many a frightful storm
Have warr'd with it at every stage
And done but little harm(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Muriel Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinvoher, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr James Moran
- Gender
- Male
