School: An Corr Dubh (roll number 14339)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giolla'n Átha
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A Song (continued)
“Where Leitrims waters flow”
(continued from previous page)In memory of my childhood days when I was acarcly [?] ten.
I used to love to ramble to pluck the berry and the sloe.
Along the daisy-sloped canal where Leitrim's waters flow.
II
Above its rippling waters there stands old Riversdale [?]
Its mansion house and ruins and it woods and flowery vales.
Its landscape clear each day appear, as the golden sun does glow
The tall beech trees blow with the breeze where Leitrim's waters flow.
III
There stands the bridge of Auhoo a grim and stately pile.
Where lovers meet and poets think and travellers rest awhile.
Where the honey tips the woodbine as the sun is sinking low.
Where twilight shadows vale the arch where(continues on next page)