Scoil: Garrysallagh

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1. Myles the Slasher (ar lean)

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   But out leaped the sword of the Slasher
   And thus to the foe did he say,
   You must trample the heart of O'Reilly,
   Ere you cross o'er the Bridge of Finea.
   There are weapons and men to defend it,
   And tell your fierce leader Munroe,
   That we'll hold it against him and his robbers
   While one stout hand can give him a blow.

   For the flag of the brave Castlehaven,
   Pressing on to the combat is seen,
   And ten thousand bright bayonets are flashing
   Round his standard of emerald green.
   The rush to the bridge where the Slasher,
   So bravely his banner unrolled,
   But alas for the cause of Green Erin,
   The heart of the hero is cold.

   He died, as a freeman should ever,
   With his flag floating free in the blast,
   With his hand on the hilt of his sabre,
   Defiant and true to the last.
   And would to kind to heaven that old Ireland
   Had ten thousand brave soldiers to-day,
   As true and as bold as the Slasher,
   Who guarded the Bridge of Finea.

   

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