School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 362
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- (continued from previous page)To exterminate us they soon decreed
Licentious Harry he did not tarry
Out strove to marry his own dear child.
'Till our Holy Pope had consumed his hope
Like a godless heathen his soul defiled
The propagation of the Reformation
They thought to force by old Satin's rule
To destroy the mass and pull down the cross
Was the sole intention of this cursed fool
The were prostrated contaminated and deliberated by our Savior's will.
When to Erin's shore came cursed Cromwell over
Our holy village pure blood to spill
In viewing farther to my alarm
In the ruin I beheld a change
A great separation from the first foundation
The wall moved inwards its very strange
I expect no carval it really happened
In the sacred chapel that I have viewed
By the Lord's command and his powerful hand
One of Harry's members he did exclude
So in the verse I will express
How the wonder happened which I have told
And eternal justice condemned his soul
His heinous body to the church they carried
In the ruins they buried their lump of pride(continues on next page)
