School: Cill Moibhí (C.) (roll number 13081)
- Location:
- Kilmovee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Dhubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 90
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- (continued from previous page)The steps are steep and high
Haste - climb - light the danger lamp
For the midnight mail is nigh.5
Out rushed the child, the ruffian winds
Shrieked round her shivering form
Ho, ho, for the babe in the hurricane,
And the child in the giant storm,
Above her like a tower in heaven,
The signal pillar stood,
And its iron stairs in the howling gale
Shivered like laths of wood.6.
Above her shook the signal lamps
Like reeds they shook amain,
Below her swung the shattered bridge
Beside her shrieked the train,
"Oh Father help me;" help thy child.
Dear father hear my prayer
The train is nigh, the lamp is high
I cannot climb the stair.7.
Save save the train! dear father save
Nearer the wild train swept,
Within upon her fevered couch
The mother swooned and slept(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mamie Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Rusheens West, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Rusheens West, Co. Mayo
