School: Termonfeckin
- Location:
- Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0675, Page 152
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- (continued from previous page)This night in sweet Baltray.With tranquil pleasure and delight
And matchless fun we spent the night,
We dance and sang with all our might
Till near the break of day.
Then Jack and Nan away were led
And instantly were put to bed
We all shooks hands and off we fled,
Away from sweet Baltray.Unknown Poet.
- O County Louth with your wave washed shore,
You have taken my heart for evermore;
With the summer bloom of the hawthorn spray
Round your well-tilled fields in fair array,
When autumn here balmy winds unfold,
Those fields are seas of flaming gold,
And woods that guard on the upland keep,(continues on next page)
