School: Stonetown, Louth (roll number 16431)
- Location:
- Stonetown Lower, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 288
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- (continued from previous page)Teach - teach - teach
How happy the labour's lot,
Who tills the fields in his manly strength,
And owns but a clay-built cot!
There are joys on earth for him
Which you can never know -
Oh! the teacher's life is a scene of strife -
The teachers days are woe!
Teach - teach - teach -
What matter though poverty stare:
Teach - teach - teach -
While the proud one's frown you bear.
There's a pauper's palace at hand,
When your thankless task is done,
And a grave wherein to hide,
When the sands of life are run.
(The above lines are supposed to have been written by a Schoolmaster named Rielly of Nobber, Co Meath. He died about 60 or 65 years ago)
- Informant
- Rielly
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Principal
- Address
- Nobber, Co. Meath
