School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 143
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- (continued from previous page)IV~
While in the cities of great fame
Each season of the year.
The buildings and the monuments
The same they will appear.
But when our first Spring's flowers are gone.
There's others springing still
Each Summer brings fresh flowers
To deck old Rathskeagh's hill.
V
And when the Autumn's flowering crops.
Gives all a golden hue.
While all is dark and dreary shops
In that city praised by you.
And Winter brings its joys so bright
When the snow each crevice fills.
In some thatched cot we danced all night
On dear old Rathskeagh Hill.
VI
Dear friends when ye come visit us.
Grand sights to you we'll show
The cave projecting oe'r the bog.
Four hundred feet below.
St Bridget's ruins amid the trees
In a dale the hills within(continues on next page)
