School: Effin (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8334)
- Location:
- Effin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs A. Fitzgerad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 120
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My hands are so tired of toiling always on the stranger's floor
There are no smiles on the faces that look from the stranger's door.
The poor of the earth's not wanted except by the poor I know
And my bones are buried in Kerry with the joys of long ago(9)
And for these do I love thee, Kerry of kindred and [?] [?]
Old memories dear as my life to me and the scenes of my past are left
Where the winds are [?] with sea songs and misty with drifted spray
And the strangers met with a friendly ward in Kerry far away.(10)
Oh! there are the wee white daisies half hidden in waving grass
And the saucy cowslips dancing in all the airs that pass
Red poppies flaunt their banner in the golden depth of the wheat
And oli! but the cool green earth were good under my weary feet(continues on next page)
