School: Killahan
- Location:
- Killahan, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ríoghbhardáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 337
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- It was down by Banna's banks I strayed,
One evening in June,
And mingled with the breeze,
I hear a sweet old Irish tune,
It was played by such a skilful hand
So pleasing and so low,
That it told me of the glorious times
In Ireland long ago.
And as I bent my ears to hear
Old memories round me came,
And when I heard my country's wrongs
I learned to know her name
It was there I stood,
Until evening shades were falling quickly down
And spreading their sable mantles,
O'er Ardfert's historic town.
And since that eve by Banna's shore
I have rambled o'er the foam,
I have heard sweet tunes and other rhymes,
Some thousand miles from home
But oh, my heart is longing still,
To hear again that tune.(continues on next page)
