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1. A Ballad - The Praises of Drishane (continued)

   

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   around.
   There are horses fed in stables, for hunting and for racing
   A park for recreation for the roeback and fawn
   Huntsmen often chasing wih their foxhounds and their beagles
   And Reynard fast retreating through the plains of Drishane.

   Just near the hall convenient there's a water-pump located
   Most artfully completed for sprinkling the flowers
   In its borders circumjacent are the nicest green plantations
   Fine walks for recreation under green shady boughs
   The lime-kilns are kept blazing with calm most unspasing.
   To distant lands reclaiming, the same has been drawing
   The quarrying operations, so loud and neverberating
   With harmony prevailing throught the plains of Drishane.

   There are strangers from all quarters strolling by its borders.
   Along the Blackwater to Killarney by train

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Location

   Drishane, Co. Cork

   Collector

   Abbie Lucey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derryleigh, Co. Cork