School: Baile an tSléibhe (roll number 1524)
- Location:
- Cornalee, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Níc Coisdeabha
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1. Every time he feels the sun
This poor fellow starts to run
Snowman
2. With the sun it comes to find you
Plays about before, behind you
Shadow.
3. Neither father, sister, brother
Yet is always has a mother
Vinegar
4. Never soars about the sky
Yet is sometimes takes a fly
Spider Web
5. Though his scales are good and sound
He has never weighed a pound
Fish
6. What posy might a mother say
To call her son from bed each day
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