School: Carraigíní (roll number 11693)
- Location:
- Carrigans Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Thos. Mc Gettrick
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A Song (continued)
“This song was composed,”
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“This world is all a bubble”
This world is all a bubble no matter where you go
There is nothing here but trouble hard-ship toil and woe
Go where you will, do what you may, but you are never free from care.
At the best this world is but a castle, in the air.
II
Still each being loved the land(continues on next page)