Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 119](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0190%2FCBE_0190_119.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 119
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- It hung above the mantle
Its barrel long and brown
And I one day with boy's desire
I climbed and took it down
My father's eyes with anger flashed
He said "What have you done?
I wish you'd left it where it was
That's my old Finian gun"
II
Curiousity awakened I looked it o'er and o'er
I placed it on my shoulders
and I marched across the floor.
My father's anger softened, he
shared my boyish fun.
"Ah well", he said 'tis in your breed
like that Old Finian gun.
III
"I remember '67 well" he said
"when lads like me". We thoaght(continues on next page)