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   In vain to save thee have they died,
   Nor lives one bard to grace their story.

   "Mighty O Neill are thine eyes closed
   That kindly blazed in battle danger?
   Weak is that arm- so long opposed
   To Erin's foes - her great avenger;
   Green is thy grave, without a stone,
   Enclosed by te blue rolling waters:
   Yet long shall thy dear name be known
   In the sad songs of Erin's daughters.
   Near what lone river are ye laid,
   Ye great O Donnells of the mountains,
   Or do you roam like me dismayed,
   And mourn by the moonlight fountains?

   "Nations of heroes? art thou quelled,
   And does the chain of bondage humble
   Those who is long the thistle hold,
   Where Woden and the Lion trembled?
   But, oh! thy sons are not as one,
   Dissension still hath been thy ruin,
   Else ne'er could England's sluggish sons
   Thus triumph o'er their own undoing?"
   Thus wailed he while the hoping owl
   Flew fearless round the woe worn stranger,

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Fanny Somers

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70

   Address

   Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan