Scoil: Baile Theas (C.), Malla (uimhir rolla 4954)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Local Song - Knocknanuss

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Knocknanuss the hill of sighs
   High Cairn above a lonely tomb,
   They named thee in a day of gloom
   To women’s wailing doleful cries.

   II
   Daughter and mother maid and wife
   They came when war’s red work was done.
   Mourning for father, lover, son
   The gory swarth of battle strife.

   III
   Like speptres in the shadows moved
   Stooping to scan a pallid face
   Peering through scars and blood to trace.
   The features of the men they loved

   IV
   For I have told an age old tale
   Long have both loved and loved ones slept.
   And pulseless dust those eyes that wept,
   And hearts that break in moan and wail.

   V
   Ah grief of love thou hast no power
   To match with death else those would rise
   And life leap back to glazed eyes,
   And touch and cry of love that hour.

   VI
   And oft in Autumn winds tis said,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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