School: Mohill (B.) (roll number 12415)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Francis Flynn
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- (continued from previous page)In the broad and wide Atlantic she pours this hissing flood
With bushes, gates, straws, turf and hay, all well mixed up with mud. The men to write the story of the Shannon and her banks
Are not the men from cities, or the wild poetic cranks.
But the farmers with the meadows from which sails off the hay
Or the men who clamp the turf the dear old Shannon sweeps away.Or the men in lowly homesteads often flooded to the beams -
To these the river Shannon is the cruellest of streams.
(Although I'm writing this, I love its every weir and dyke.
In all its woods it yields me Salmon, Trout and Pike).
A.O.E.B.- Collector
- Archibald Oliver Edward Bradshaw
- Gender
- Male