School: An Maoilín, Ráth Droma
- Location:
- Trooperstown Hill, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0918, Page 103
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- (continued from previous page)The echoes sprang out of resound;VI
Thou leader of horsemen, why hasten
So fleetly to Brusselstown hill?
What foemen, what yeomen await thee,
To question, in Wicklow, thy will?VII
No foemen or yoemen they're seeking
Though furiously onward they ride
But their leader, he loves a young maiden.
And he's speeding to make her his bride;VIII
"Halt!" Bridles were drawn and they halted
There's a farmstead looming ahead,
And the door of the dwelling is open;
Now the leader rode forward and said;IX
There's somebody seeking thee, Mary;
A boy who came down from Kaigeen
With forty brave bridesmen from Laragh
With cockades and crosses of green"
Oh Mary came out in her beauty
The loveliest maid of Imale;
The loveliest flower that blossomed
In all the wild haunts of the vale.X
Arrayed in an emerald habit,(continues on next page)
