School: Dristeran (roll number 2131)
- Location:
- Dristernan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cnaimhsighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1122, Page 279
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- (continued from previous page)Another Culdaff poet who still lives and is known by the name of S. Cnaimsige wrote many poems, the following is an admired one entitled Culdaff.Culdaff? spot by the ocean for you my love burns
you with devotion my heart ever turns
Where the sigh of the old ocean is still on the gales
And sentinel hills guard the soft verdant vales
? a thousand wild streamlets rush down to the shore
As if wooed from their homes by the ocean's deep roar
? the dear mountain fern as it weeps over the foam
these streamlets rush down from their lone mountain home.How sweet is Culdaff when the summer breeze blows
The petals away from the beautiful rose
? butterflies flit through the soft sunny bowers
? banqueting bees hold their feasts on the flowers? dear is Culdaff when the proud autumn breathes
? scents through the meadows or brushes the wreaths
? the exquisite dyes which the summer distills
? she bids a farewell to the vales and the hills.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
