School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 042
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Why pensively still do I visit this valley,
Why linger my steps by each meadow and stream,
And memory o'er shaded with deep melancholy,
Recall other days like the light of a dream?
Tho' simple these uplands and homely these flowers,
Tho' solitude broods o'er the fields where I roam,
Yet, ah! 'tis the scene of my juvenile hours -
The ruin'd remains of my once happy home.
II
Deep voices encumber the wind as it passes,
And talk of the blessings of years fled away,
When happy, enjoying a father's caresses
I played by his knee on each fine sabbath day.
Along the close hedges with rowan trees shaded
He led my young mind o'er past ages to roam,
In history's volumes whose wonders pervaded
My innocent mind in my once happy home.(continues on next page)
