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

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1. St John's Town - by A Drangan Boy (continued)

   

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   V
   And you, you roofless homestead,
   Come let us hear the tale
   You tell, of crimes in later days
   Committed in this vale !
   How helpless Babe and moaning maid
   And grandsire stooping low,
   Were hurled out thy lowly door
   To wander in the snow.
   VI
   Look o'er this wide expanse of vale!
   And nothing meets the eye,
   But fleecy herds and lowing kine -
   No smoke ascends the sky ;
   From cosy sheeling - No, 'tis ruined,
   The huge land-grabber came.
   And snatched the plot - the life
   sustained
   Of maid and sire and dame.
   VII
   Apart from those dire memories,
   No vale by storied Rhyme,

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Walshe

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Magowry, Co. Tipperary