School: Dún Drongáin (B.) (roll number 7231)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Diarmuid Ó Gormáin Labhrás Ó Gormáín
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- Exiled from the land of my fathers
In a far foreign country I roam
And tho' I was destined to leave thee
I ne'er shall forget thee -my home;
Nor the village where oft in my childhood
Wild, reckless I gamboled & played
The maiden I courted in boyhood
And the hawthorn dell where we strayed.But here as I toil for the stranger
In forest's primeval alone
My thoughts wing their way over ocean
To joys and to times that are flown
And I see at the bend of the roadAnd the murmuring brook by the way side
Which glides past her peaceful abodeAnd fancy as if to deride me
Again puts her hand into mine
And I listen the oft-murmured whisper
"Ah Willie! for ever I'm thine"
When from my day dreamings I waken
Missouri hard by rolling on(continues on next page)
