School: Danescastle
- Location:
- Danescastle, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Loinghsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0875, Page 025
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- (continued from previous page)And now they say that it doth lie
Beneath its strand of foam
And to mourn their ancient Citys loss
The peasants love to roam
And often in the even time
Those phantom streets they say
Are seen beneath the tranquil waves
Of Bannows bright blue Bay
Ive roamed thro many an Irish scene
Where nature fairest dwells
Thro woodland scenes and valleys green
Those mountain lakes and fells
But fresher far my memory keeps
One place more loved than they
Where Bannows bured city sleeps
Beneath that bright blue Bay.
- Farewell to Bannow.Farewell to thee Bannow forever
The home of my childhood adieu
Since Fate has decreed it to sever
They emerald hills from my view
No more on the banks shall I wander
Save only in thought oe'r the sea
And mine shall no heart ere be fonder
Dear Bannow my birthplace of theeII
The foaming Atlantics dark dangers
I must wander oe'r to seek rest
A home in the land of the stranger
Remote in the land of the West(continues on next page)
