School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0527, Page 351
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Scenes of my Youth, with a heart overflowing
I stand for the last time amid your gay bowers
To think with devotion and tender emotion
Of childhood and boyhood those bright sunny hours.
To view with affection and fond recollection
E'er I'm parted for ever from Erin's loved shore
The heart thrilling scenes spread in every direction
Of fair verdant Carrig and Sweet Corkamore.
II
Ah" here 'mid those scenes have I gazed with emotion
Till the soft tears of sadness bedewed my young Cheek
When I thought that e're long I shall cross the broad ocean
In far off Columbia my fortune to seek
And when far from dear Erin my barge shall be steering
And I shall be feeling I'll ne'er see you more
I'll say with devotion and tender devotion
"Fare-you well verdant Carrig and Sweet Corkamore."
III
And when by Columbia's broad rivers I'll wander
With love for old Ireland still fresh in my heart
Of the home of my youth every hour growing fonder,(continues on next page)
