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1. Poets - The Maiden's Dream

   

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   There was a poet in Kilmurry [?] named Andrew Curtin. He was a local poet. He composed songs dispraising the English. He was a school teacher and he died in the year 1738.

   Those are the words of a song Thomas Crowley composed.

   The Maiden's Dream.

   I

   Dreams to some come very true,
   And come with grief to more,
   As it did to me in my country.
   I mean poor Erin's shore.
   I dreamt I was upon a hill,
   By the side of a lovely dale,
   And its there I spied a lovely maid,
   They called her Grannuaile.

   II

   Her lovely hair hung down her neck,
   And she was dressed in green,
   I thought she was the fairest girl,
   My eyes had ever seen.
   As I drew near I then could hear,
   By a pleasant morning gale,
   As she went along she sang her song,
   I'm poor old Grannuaile.

   III

   I hastened my footsteps,
   And those words to her did say,

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