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School: Ballynacally, Inis (roll number 2189)

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Ballynacally, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0604, Page 145

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    (1) Married in January's hoar and rime.
    Widowed you will be before your time.
    (2) Married in February's sleety weather.
    Life you will travel in tune together.
    (3) Married in March winds shrill and hoar.
    Your home will lie in a foreign shore.
    (4) Married ' neath april's changeless skies.
    A checkquered path before you lies.
    (5) Married when bees over May blooms flit.
    A stranger round year board will sit.
    (6) Married in month of roses - June.
    Life will be one long honeymoon.
    (7) Married in July's heat and drowse.
    Lover and friend in your chosen spouse.
    (8) Married in August mist and haze.
    Bitter-sweet memories in after days.
    (9) Married in mild September glow.
    Smooth and serene your life will go.
    (10) Married in October chill and gray.
    Life for you will be always gay.
    (11) Married in November storm and rain.
    Life for you will be bitter pain.
    (12) Married in chill December drear.
    Love's star shines brightly from year to year.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. proverbs (~4,377)
      2. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Brassil
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Meaney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Poulaphuca, Co. Clare