School: Cnocán Mhichíl Naofa (Clochar)
- Location:
- Clár Chlainne Mhuiris, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0098, Page 344
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Song of Convent
“Upon the sunny hilltop high,”
Mount St. Michael
I
Upon the sunny hilltop high,
It sits and looketh down,
And like a guardian strong and calm,
Seems watching oer the town,
And there are stories twined about,
This mansion old and gray,
One of the years long passed and gone,
The other of to day.
II
Upon the first we will not dwell,
It is a tale of woe,
Of young lives blighted in their bloom,
Of young men's hearts brought low,
Of judgements most unjustly given,
To those whose only crime,
Was love of country and of God,
They perished in their prime.
III
For Ireland, and for Ireland's faith,
Upon that barren hill,
Which yet the gallows' mark retains-