School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 177
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An Old Song (continued)
“Where brutal strength it is required”
(continued from previous page)III
His clothes are rags, his talk is vile,
This spurned of Erin's Isle,
At Mass he hasn't been for years,
He talks of priests with oaths and jeers,
There's no mistake its true and sad,
A navy's life is rough and bad.
IV
Too much fatigued at night to pray,
Before he knows faith slips away;
Without a comrade or a friend;
His wretched life draws to an end.
This spurned lifeless Cavan slave.
Is buried in a pauper's grave.
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But let us hope that Mary's smile
Will greet a soul from Erin's Isle.
- Collector
- Paul A. Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardamagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- James Dowd
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardamagh, Co. Cavan