School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 197
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- (continued from previous page)To be sought for in society
And lionized when there.
Each nation holds some freak aloft_
Its own peculiar craze -
While Vice, with midnight torch in hand,
Encircles with a blaze,
And oh! what horrid crimes appear
Within that lurid flame!
Has mankind lost his manliness?
And womanhood her shame?
Will no one stop their mad career?
Destruction looms ahead!
The flimsy joys of life but hide
The abys dark and dread!
Good holy men of prayer + thought
Look on that wanton crowd _
Nor do they zeal + courage lack
To voice their thoughts aloud.
They ask them in the name of God
To mend their evil ways;
They point them out the duties
Which should occupy their days
In vain they chide the lavish lore
Bestowed on foolish brutes.
While human hearts unnoticed, break
From sorrow's cankered root _(continues on next page)
