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1. The Farmer's Lament for a Broken Pipe (continued)

   

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   My warm, social, sweet consoling friend.

   When landlord threatened and when rents wer due,
   And process-servers through the village flew,
   And tax-collectors came to seize a pledge,
   And skulking bailiffs eyed me through the hedge;
   When all these cares assailed my yielding breast.
   And my affairs in sable garb were drest,
   Dear pipe, in you sweet contentment I have found,
   When friendship lagged and stern oppressors frowned
   You levelled down the mountains of my mind
   And bid me give my troubles to the wind."

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Brady

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moynalty, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Mr P. Brady

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moynalty, Co. Meath