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   Should you visit Kilcooley you'd feel ecstacy
   Where art with dame nature for supremacy
   Doth vie with each other in those grand domains
   For they'd surely outrival the Elysian plains
   For -

   To behold the grand towers pointing to the sky
   With the ash, oak, and elm, with them seem to vie
   The silent old abbey, the pride of past days
   And the enchanting terrace more granduer displays
   And the -

   Should you find yourself lonely, those beauties forsake
   And wind your steps slowly down to the grand lake
   Where the goddess of beauty doth surely reside
   At the front of the mansion Kilcooley's real pride
   At the front -

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Liam Mac Óda

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir