School: Gort an Locha (roll number 1414)

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1. Local Songs - James Judge (continued)

   

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   And on their shoulders bore The corpse of whom they did adore And ever will deplore. VIV They marched along bewailing At a slow and solemn pace And grief it was depicted On the brow of every face They laid his body in the grave To moulder with the clay I hope his soul in Heaven Shines Good Christians for him pray

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2. Local Songs - Lough Arrow's Lovely Beach

   

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   Men may boast of foreign coasts and travel to their best
   While other bards describe in rhyme the beauties of the west.
   Where ere you hail by sea or rail give justice I beseech
   There's none so fair beyond compare Lough Arrow's lovely beach.

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   Its beauties are so fair beyond much other waters clime
   With islands, groves and green clad shore

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