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1. Mummers' Rhymes - Sarsfield's Rhyme (continued)

   

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   side. Fast back unto those battered I spurred with eagles flight and on to-morrow did resume a more fierce and deadly fight.
   Like Rome's fair maids the women fought and cut their flowing hair to tic the ball that sweethearts won and Saxons once to tear.
   I've read of France and Greece and Spain, and of their famous deeds
   But Limerick on that glorious day in valor far exceeds.
   Who would be right to shirk a fight
   When dwelt such womanhood.
   Up to their waists I've seen them wade, in streams of precious blood.
   The seige was raised the English flew in terror to Athlone, while five hundred of the thousand dead on the Shannon bank lay slain.
   What followed the I need not tell how Ruth at Aughrim fell.

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   26 June 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Dillon