School: Caisleán Ó gConaing (B.) (roll number 9685)

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1. A Song - "Starmount" (continued)

   

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   A time there was when this reclusive homestead meant to me,

   The center of all joy and bliss - my soul's vitality,

   Beside the house, a dainty garden, prettily designed,

   Was bordered with a lattice 'round which rambling roses twined.

   
   Odorous flowers bedecked its beds with different shapes and dyes,

   Diffusing delicate fragrances when disturbed by west winds' sighs,

   In summer time, the hawthorn tree within the garden filled,

   The air with ambrosial balm it clustered bloom distilled.

   
   In Starmount, stood a monument that marked historic ground

   The ruin of a castle, by antiquity renouned.

   In stately pose, its lofty piers rose solemn and serene,

   Their age-old greyness masked beneath a cape of ivy green.

   
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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr John Hickey

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Derreen, Co. Limerick