School: Effin (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 8334)
- Location:
- Effin, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs A. Fitzgerad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0509, Page 129
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- I bless myself and I kiss the Cross
And the holy Creed I tell
And the Paters and Aves trip off my tongue
For its me that knows them well
For its many a day these same old beads
I told in the same old way
I got them my First Communion morn
And that's sixty years this May
(2)Twas the Joyful Mysteries then I liked
And I said them joyfully
When Our Lord was only a Child Himself
At this Blessed Mother's Knee
Ochone! but its many and many a year
I've turned from the joyful deeds
And I cry (?) on the Sorrowful Mysteries
With tears as big as my beads
(3) For my beautiful boy with the fever went
And himself next morning died
Do you wonder I think of the Mysteries
That end with the Crucified
For its then as I'm telling each blessed bead
A kneeling (?) beside my bed(continues on next page)
