School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 132
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- Old Mullagh Hill of the craggy braes
Is clothed with fern and fir
And looks as young as in olden days
But it never seems to stir
It is all the same in a thousand years.
The lake looks calm and mild.
Whilst steering up the old mill-stream
By the churchyard drear and wild
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It murmurs along by the silent dead
As they sleep in their dark abode
With the damp earth piled above their head.
Unconscious of their load.
Here look at the moss-grown tombstones
You will see by the age and the name
So short a time we are given
To walk by the old mill-stream
But time is stealing onwards.
One drop from the waterfall
It glides away like a shadow
And so will we mortals all.
