School: Lorg an Iarla (roll number 13590)
- Location:
- Lurganearly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Choilldubh
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- POEM
IFair Fane! in all the vales which mark thy course along,The fairest is the pleasant dale where I locate my song,tis here thy youthful, purling stream flows through its rocky passes,Round flowery creeks by leafy shrubs and daisy sprinkled grasses.
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As down thy patient pebbled bed thy crystal waters glide,The margin of two counties love the friend of either side,The lightly springing speckled trout cleave thy tide like a dart,And safe beneath the hawthorn shade, defy the angler's art.
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Here Luganearly lowly bebnds to kiss thy margin fair,And Altnamackin stoopeth down the envied kiss to share,While Skeriff coyly lies behind the hills of Ballinavea,And Skerrymore, like a knigh of yore, stands guarding night and day(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mr D. Blackwood
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynarea, Co. Armagh