School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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- I
Though time effaces memory, and griefs the bosom harden,
I'll ne'er forget where'er I be, that day at killenarden;
For there, while fancy revelled wide, the summer's day flew o'er me,
The friends I loved were at my side, and Irish fields before me.
II
The road was steep; the pelting showers had covered the sod beneath us,
And there were lots of of mountain flowers, a garland to enreath us,
Far, far below the landscape shone with wheat and new-mown meadows,
And as o'erhead the clouds flew on, beneath swept on their shadows.(continues on next page)