School: Gleannóg, Malla (roll number 9448)
- Location:
- Glannoge, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs K. Barrow
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0363, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)Or was she sent as boon from Heaven,?
To the much suffering people given
Who late had dared to make a stand,
For ancient faith and fatherland.
And fallen in unequal fight.
And wrong had triumphed over right
Leaving a bigot foreign race,
To ruin and desolate the place
No man to her asserted claim
And Gragkeen Deelish was her name
Wherever she grazed next morn was seen
A track of verdure extra green
Like to the track which grows beneath
The mighty dance of fairy feet
What time they skip round grassy[?] ring
In dewy May at close of Spring(continues on next page)
