School: De Freyne (roll number 16457)
- Location:
- Portaghard, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 179
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- Dear Erin's heath-clad mountains,
Are beautiful to view.
Likewise her hills and fountains,
And lakes of rolling blue.
But on those hills and sparkling rills,
There are no joys for me.
Since you beneath the clay now sleep,
Young Mary Og Machree.
II
And fond memory brings me back
The hours when oe'r the mountains will.
I wandered through those perfume bowers,
With Mary, young and mild.
And when beneath those shady trees,
We sat down silently,
Or listening to the blustering breeze
With Mary Og Machree.
III
Her cheeks were like the rose so red,
Upon the mountain side.
Her neck was like the foam that flows,
Down by Lough Gara's tide.
Her eyes shone like two diamonds,
Most beautiful to see.
And my hearts delight, day and night(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Grady
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Grady
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloggarnagh, Co. Roscommon
