School: Clonlara
- Location:
- Cloonlara, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Heoghanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 032
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- (continued from previous page)Still the boat-man's stroke came quicker, but [?] his rigid lips were dumb.
Yet a girl voice skimmed the water, clear and sweet it said "I come!"
But next moment all was silent, then a wild and grating crash,
With a shriek that rose terrific high above the torrent's dash;
Long and far that death cry sounded in the heart of gorge and glen,
But through life-long years the echo wrung her heart who heard it then.
Rose next morning's sun as brightly, smiled as beautiful the scene,
Sang as sweet the Summer song birds, as if nought of grief had been.
But sweet Mary and the boat-man, the beautiful, the brave,
To the gladness, and the sorrow, were asleep beneath the wave.
- Collector
- Josie Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs P. Moloney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Doonass, Co. Clare
