School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Gráinne
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- (continued from previous page)But watch ! upon the river's bank
Dark figures pass along,
They join the silent watcher and
They hurriedly converse,
They whisper soft and earnestly,
And hurriedly disperse.
VI
Not long have they been vanished
when
Again they reappear,
With pick and shovels armed and
That vessel - is it beer?
If so, they are not drinking it,
They're shaking it around -
Perhaps they're ghosts of olden saints
Are hallowing the ground.
VII
Within the ruin a light is struck,
The candle's on the wall,
Of coats and hats divested soon
They're working one and all ;(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teresa Walshe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Magowry, Co. Tipperary