School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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- (continued from previous page)The lightning flash
That smites thy bosom hearing with delight
Adds to thy joy and glorifies thy might!27. As they ceased the minstrel beheld the caves
That are digged in the slimy rock
And nearing them fell ‘mid the dead men’s graves
With a sudden and stunning shock
Where fatigued he lay on the slimy sand
And closed his smarting eyes.
Then he slept and dreamed that an angel band
Came down and bore him away to a land
The fairest beneath the skies.28. As he woke where he yesterday played and sat
On the slope of the Fairy Knowes
That rise from the smooth green grassy flat
Where the sheep and cattle browse.Finis - 1. ‘Twas on a sultry Summer’s day
An aged man, whose locks were gray,
Did sit him by the King’s highway
His weary limbs to rest
A sportive youth was passing by
Whose frolics caught the old man’s eye
And signing to him to come nigh
He thus the lad addressed.2. Of dreary years ‘tis nigh five score
Since I sat in this place before
What time there lived at Donaghmore
A rector surnamed Spence
And though a goodly man was he
Yet; fond of popularity
He was a sportsman gay and free
Who loved to spend his pence3. Once, on a fair day of Strabane,
Vile Satan tempted this good man,
To drink from that forbidden can
Had many a just man fell
So he sat down with right good will
And many a foaming bowl did fill
For twopence halfpenny bought a gill
And none the tale would tell.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal