School: Moynalty (C.)
- Location:
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)And when to me these words were spoke
The friends were all disarmed.V
Then he said, "What place on earth
Were you, sir, situated?
Or what strange country gave you birth
Now let it be related"VI
"In old Ireland" I did reply
"My father lived for ages
But from it they were forced to fly
When tyrants are outrageous."VII
The mighty monarch grinned a smile
A smile of indignation
And said the tyrants of that isle
Well desreved damnationIX
"For if the world was searched all round
Each different zone and place man
On earth no villains could be found
So sorrid bad and base man"X
For such oppression was unknown
IN Dracoo's time or Nero's
And such cruelty was never shown(continues on next page)