School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 035
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- (continued from previous page)But I must join their sports no more, nor ever, ever find,
My heart at rest on some fond breast, in the home I left behind.
IV
It was a dreary winter day, the snow lay on the moor,
When landlord, bailliffs, and police broke in our cottage door;
They drove my widow'd mother forth- but death to her was kind,
She sleeps beside my father near the home I left behind.
V
And now I wander, sad and lone among these prairies wild,
Still dreaming o'er each happy scene that bless'd me when a child.
Cold strangers heedless mark my tears, but never can I find
The friendly smile of my own Green Isle in the home I left behind.
