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School: Ross (roll number 12789)

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Cáit Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0718, Page 027

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    fond desire
    Which kind hope say the lonely task
    Who will not deem so much required
    To lay my corpse with the earth
    In that loved sport where first you told me
    Your heart was mine which gave hope birth
    That e'en in death's last pang console me
    There let me rest in peaceful death
    By all but thee unknown
    Unheeded and lost alike to glory's breath
    From honour, rank, and fame degraded
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tonagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mrs W. Moynagh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tonagh, Co. Cavan