School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Tír Eiltín, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0339, Page 139
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“One Summers early morning as over the fields I strayed”
I
One Summers early morning as over the fields I strayed
Whenever shining sol his morning appearance made
The feathered tuning warblers sang charming in each bush and tree
All nature seemed enchanted on hearing their melodies
II
By its fleecy mother with pleasure doth sport a lamb
The foal along the meadows doth skip round its gentle dam
The deer along the green woods by Greenville doth swiftly bound
And hunters with their horns call after their eager hounds.
III
As on those rapturous scenes with eagerness I did gaze
I saw a charming creature whose(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Murphy
- Gender
- Female