School: Clochar na Trócaire, Drangan (roll number 7232)

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1. Gold Seeking - A Tale by A Drangan Boy (continued)

   

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   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 ;

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Walshe

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Magowry, Co. Tipperary