School: Millín, Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 16329)
- Location:
- An Millín Dubh, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Liam Diolún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)Beneath were convicts' graves;
Some who were once their mother's love,
And gladdened fathers' eyes,
In deaths cold sleep lie mouldering deep,
Till dooms-day not to rise.(4)
How many more within the walls
Live varying in their time?
Some for years and more for life
According to their crime;
Ah! thousands would they gladly pay,
E'en millions, if in store,
To gain once that liberty
They oft enjoyed before.(5)
How thankful should we be to God,
Who still has kept us free
From those vile direful crimes which would
On us bring misery,
And preserved for us what's more than gold
A character pure and high;
Health and the sweets of liberty,
Wealth could not these supply.
