School: Calry (roll number 10473)
- Location:
- Colgagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Róisín Mhig Ualghairg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 122
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“You dark rolling billows that part me from Erin...”
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When the tear of long absence on my pale cheek reposes,
And loiters down lonely both heavy and chill,
When I think I'm exiled from the morning red roses
That blush through the scenes of my native Lough Gill.5.
But why do I mourn for the friends I have parted
My dear native village it lives for me still
But yet there is something that leaves me broken hearted,
I think it's for parting my native Lough Gill6.
The wood doves be silent through Canadian wild bushes,
As lonely I wander on this foreign shore,
And sigh for the notes of the blackbirds and thrushes.
Father and Mother who will see me no more.(continues on next page)