School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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- (continued from previous page)sparkling feathers and many shiny beams trailed down to where we were waiting. "Come up" she called, "come up in the air with me", "Come up on my sunny beams" "let us go" said one of us "All right let us go" said us all. We grasped the birds wings and we rose up in the air so lightly that we hardly knew we were leaving our home in the ocean.
Up, up went until we were high among the clouds where we found other drops like ourselves. As the wind wafted the clouds about it was pleasant to go sailing across the sky and look down on the wonderful things of earth.
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Dubhthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
