School: Meath Hill (roll number 7166)
- Location:
- Meath Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Patrick J. Connolly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0712, Page 257
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- (continued from previous page)is a truth derived from lore,
Famed for wisdom ever more.XII
But my wife, who, nothing fearing, stood behind, amused and leering -
Leering at the awkward figure I had cut before the door;
"Fool!" she said "O fool and coward, by such idle fears o'erpowered!"
And those comforts then were showered which Job's wife would yield of yore;
So the veil of strange delusion from my vision quick she tore -
"'Tis an Owl, and nothing more!"XIII
So it was - the bird was dying, for within a corner lying,
Was a fierce tom-cat, whose presence I had failed to note before;
Thence a prisoner lately borne, his stong pinions sadly torn,
And of all his prowess shorn, he - Minerva's bird of yore -
Had escaped from Tom's embraces while yet struggling on the floor,
But to flutter never more!(continues on next page)
