School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)
- Location:
- Castlegannon, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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- (continued from previous page)Profanes this loved, but honoured dust,
A young ash tree, a grassy mound,
Some fragrant flowers blooming round,
Denote my father's grave.III
My father's grave! what visions fond!
What sad, yet tender, thoughts respond
To that full chord which vibrates loud
At memory's touch, what feelings crowd
Around my father's grave.IV
Could I from changeful fortune claim
The gift of riches, power, and fame.
Yet still my first, my only care,
My constant wish would be to share
My father's lowly grave.V
Oh! could I all my thoughts unfold
Or could the tender tale be told
Of all my heart have known and felt
Since first in bitter grief I knelt
Beside my fathers grave.VI
What e'er may be my wanderings yet,
I think I never shall forget,
That young ash tree, that grassy mound
Those fragrant flowers blooming around
My father's rustic grave.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Alice Anderson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lukeswell, Co. Kilkenny