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1. The Mountain Stream

   

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   The Mountain Stream

   Hear it rushing, bubbling, gushing
   Falling away in a lonely roar.
   Hear it sighing, hear it crying for
   the times it will see no more.
   the children patter, and lightly chatter
   grasping at each shining beam
   And pause to listen, where the waters glisten
   to the rumbling call of the Mountain Stream.

   Years too have flown, life seeds have grown
   And children now in youth no more
   Far o'er the foam, sigh for their homes
   on a foreign far away shore.
   And some yet still live by each will (?)
   they have known it in children's dream
   And in manhood's prime think of the time
   when they listened to the call of the M. Stream.

   Still another page, and another age,
   gaze we now in grief worn men.
   who loved to play the long bright day
   in times long ago by heath and fen
   Still through the years and it's shining tears
   flashes of olden days of gleam.
   And again they listen, when the waters glisten

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lizzie Harrington

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mr Madden

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Teacher

   Address

   Cahernahallia, Co. Tipperary