School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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- (continued from previous page)Wither the frosts of life, not long enduring.3. Springtime of life,
Dove on the wing
Doubling thy strife
E’en as I sing
Oh! That some spell would a moment delay thee
Fain would I pluck thy swift pinions and stay thee FINIS - 1. Has the time not come when the poor man’s home
Will more attention crave
There’s a nation’s name and a nations fame
And a nation’s life to save.
There is famine’s dread and the fight for bread,
And death’s rattle as they say,
In the nation’s breath as she works for death
With a dwindling peasantry.2. There’s a greed for gold with a certain fold
That does the sceptre wield.
While there’s drudgery and pay, pay, pay,
With the man who tills the field
He is driven away, for he cannot stay
And never a tear is shed
He shall not return and his land shall mourn
For a useful soldier fled.3. Let the powers that be, their error see
Driving out such husbandsmen,
They can count the spoil from a delerict [sic] soil
Let them balance their Budget, then!
The greedy crew the wood may hew
And carry the water pail
And wring their hands. Their house in the sands
Will be strewn about in the gale.4. Ye sons of toil that till the soil
Come rally your land to save.
And seize the tools from the jobbing fools
That are digging the nation’s grave
And in union band on the ramparts stand
Till each mongrel foeman’s fled
Or politics that would dare to fix
The price of the nation’s bread. FINIS- Collector
- Donnachadh E. Mac Congáile
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal