School: Com Liath (Scoil Brighde) (roll number 8924)
- Location:
- Coomleagh West, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Muircheartach Ó Cróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0282, Page 541
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- (continued from previous page)5.
I said young lady may I ask what causes your tears to flow
Or is it your father or your friend has left you here in woe
She says no father or no friend can my poor heart reveal
For my young lover he has fled from Mealagh's Winding Stream.6.
He scorned to dwell within the land where freedom's burning ray
Is cast down-trodden in the dust and mouldering in decay.
But soon he will return again to change a freeman's theme
And wield a freeman's sword once more by Mealagh's Winding Stream.
