School: Kildalkey (C.) (roll number 868)

Location:
Kildalkey, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire Nic Dhiarmada
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  5. XML “To Mary Emmaline”

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  1. On Seeing a white rose on a Lady's Breast
    It was a fragrant tender flower
    that in the snowy bosom lay
    Of me fair maid whose charms have power
    To wile a cynic's heart away
    And envied I that blossom gay
    Its pillow on sweet Mary's breast
    Where evermore I'd lain delay
    And be beloved, remembered best.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. To Mary Emmaline
    On a sandy beach I lay at rest
    And watched the bounding sea
    With its scattered sails and billows dressed
    In white foam leaping free.
    T'was a sublime scene, a vision rare
    Just sweeter wert thou nigh
    With thy Autumn wealth of wind-tossed hair
    And sparkling azure eye
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.