School: Baile an Londraigh (C.) (roll number 14306)

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1. Nameless

   

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   I.
   Where the mountains cast their shadows
   Round a village white and fair
   And the May first woos the meadows
   When a child I wantoned there
   There are ties that nought can sever
   Loves that never know decay
   And they bind my heart forever
   To that dear home far away.

   Oh what now is glade or tillage
   Futile pomp or worldly pride
   Give me back my native village (Ballylanders)
   Where the friends I love reside

   II.
   Natal memories hold their places
   Through the changes that have been
   And I miss the happy faces
   That make life a flowery scene
   And the hunter's bugle sounding
   By the lakelet's lonely shore
   And the hundred streamlets bounding
   Down the steeps of Galteemore

   III.
   When the sunny sheen is bright'ning
   The dark coppice round Clare Fall

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   D. J. Kilmartin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballylanders, Co. Limerick