School: An Mhainistir, Móin Rátha (roll number 14243)
- Location:
- Mountrath, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Br Columban Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0833, Page 313
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“John Keegan was born of humble parents in a village by the Nore...”
(continued from previous page)If all the wrath of England ran
To fill the land with ruin fires
If all her bloodiest hounds began
To tear us as they tore our sires. If every cabin felt the flame
And all the fields were waste and red,
Till silence o'er our highways came
Such silence as will bless the dead.If all the tears our fathers shed
Come back to us and all the groans
And wives and sons and daughters dead
Say with no Priest to bless their bones
All, all were vain to quench the fires
That burn within our hearts to day
So help us God that helped our sires
He cannot give the land away.Give me the manly open foe
Then I am prepared to ward the blow;
But of all ills which heaven doth send
Oh save me, save me, from the treacherous friend