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1. The Vale of Tralee (continued)

   

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   Since in boyhood I climbed them, longing to see
   Fair Killarney, Dingle and the Vale of Tralee.
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   The sublime panorama that burst on my sight
   Has been since to my soul a supernal delight,
   Now, wandering thro' Austral's wild bush and lea.
   My fancy doth fly to the Vale of Tralee.
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   In the morn of manhood, in summer's bright time,
   I stood on Slievemish - that mountain sublime,
   Before me Killarney, behind me the sea,
   Beneath me the beautiful Vale of Tralee.
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   Carrauntual and Mangerton, o'er fairy Louth Lene,
   The Mang's graceful windings through Castlemaine,
   Dunkerron, Glegariffe, and wild Keimaneigh,
   Enraptured my soul by the Vale of Tralee.
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   And methought that Creator ne'er meant that a slave
   Should breathe on those mountains or gaze on that wave,
   Or dwell on those dales, so delightful to see,
   Round Ardfert and Lixnaw, by the Vale of Tralee.
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   I looked to the west where Cara's bright lake
   Shone like a diamond midst mountain and brake
   Iveragh's rugged mountains stretched on to the sea

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   J. B. O' Connor

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lacka More, Co. Kerry