School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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- (continued from previous page)27 Six frantic leaps: the wall is nigh,
With beating heart and straining eye
The thunder-stricken standers-by
Await the dreadful leap
She nears and plunges through the air,
Just clears the ragged copestone bare
With scarce a quarter-inch to spare
Her rider safe to keep”28. “ Well done!” quoth Spence, while on each side
They cheer ‘what matter how I ride
If that my horse I sit astride
And reach the winning post
Full well I know my Mary Jane
Without the aid of whip or rein
Will do her level best to gain
The stables of mine host’”29. “Straight for the market-house she flew
And as the archway nearer drew
Bold Tommy Russell came to view
Nor spent his horse’s strength
But though he galloped hard and fast
Dame fate decreed he should be last’
For Mary Jane the archway passed
And beat him by a length.”XXX30. ‘And so I’ve found it in that race
Each man on earth begins,
It matters little how he rides
If in the end he wins.FINIS - 1. Spring of the year
Stay with us, stay
Winter is drear,
Haste not away.
Summer and Autumn, with ripe joys decieve us
Season of tender buds oh! Do not leave us!2. Springtime of love
Tarry awhile
Sunshine above,
Joy in thy smile
Soon shall thy eager bloom, too swift maturing(continues on next page)- Collector
- Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal