Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Location
![The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0335](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbe/CBE_0485%2FCBE_0485_0335.jpg?format=jpg&width=1600&quality=85)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0335
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- Born at Bookla. Ballymoe, Co. Galway. Educated in the National School, Ballymoe, Co Ga;way - Emigrated to America at the age 19 years - died in America Aged 27. years. My Mother _ thou with more than human power
Did'st guide me in my childhood's sunny hour
And boyhood's bloom,
'Till I, from thee, and home, and friends did go
Unto the world - to drink the cup of woe,
Alas, too soon!
And I have drunk the cup e'en to dispair,
But in my darkest hour I saw you there
Beside the road
Where you did say good-by, to me in tears.
That vision fair has helped me through the
Years to bear my load.(continues on next page)