School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)

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1. Springtime (continued)

   

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   Wither the frosts of life, not long enduring.

   3. Springtime of life,
   Dove on the wing
   Doubling thy strife
   E’en as I sing
   Oh! That some spell would a moment delay thee
   Fain would I pluck thy swift pinions and stay thee

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2. Tillers of the Soil

   

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   1. Has the time not come when the poor man’s home Will more attention crave There’s a nation’s name and a nations fame And a nation’s life to save. There is famine’s dread and the fight for bread, And death’s rattle as they say, In the nation’s breath as she works for death With a dwindling peasantry. 2. There’s a greed for gold with a certain fold That does the sceptre wield. While there’s drudgery and pay, pay, pay, With the man who tills the field He is driven away, for he cannot stay And never a tear is shed He shall not return and his land shall mourn For a useful soldier fled. 3. Let the powers that be, their error see Driving out such husbandsmen, They can count the spoil from a delerict [sic] soil Let them balance their Budget, then! The greedy crew the wood may hew And carry the water pail And wring their hands. Their house in the sands Will be strewn about in the gale. 4. Ye sons of toil that till the soil Come rally your land to save. And seize the tools from the jobbing fools That are digging the nation’s grave And in union band on the ramparts stand Till each mongrel foeman’s fled Or politics that would dare to fix The price of the nation’s bread. FINIS

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   James Mc Loughlin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tievebrack, Co. Donegal