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 053

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 053

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  1. 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.
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