Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. To the Old Men and Women of My Native Village (continued)

   

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   Perhaps some moonlit scene comes back
   When somewhat older grown,
   You dreaming trod some fairy track
   With one you loved, but now, alack!
   Long, long left here alone.

   Or graver still the pictures grow -
   A touch with grief and pain,
   As children dear to manhood grow;
   Then o'er the wild blue ocean go,
   While tear drops fall like rain.

   God bless you lads and lassies grey,
   Long may you linger here,
   Long,, long we wish your gentle way,
   With sunshine strewn along your way,
   Your pathway bright and clear.

   Upon Time's shifting, threshing floor
   God winnows out the grace
   Of human life, and ever more
   From earth He garners to His store
   The best of this frail race.

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • John J. Walsh