School: Ross (roll number 12789)

Location:
Ross, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Cáit Bean Uí Mhaoláin
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    Should shine when her pilgrim returned
    But though darkness began to unfold me
    No lamp from the battlement burned
    11.
    I flew to her chamber, twas lonely
    As if the loved tenant lay dead
    Oh would it were death and death only
    But no the young false one had fled
    And there hung the lute, that could soften
    My very worst pains into bliss
    While the hand that had waked it so often
    Now throbbed to a proud rival's kiss.
    111.
    There was a time, falsest of women
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mrs Joseph Mullen
    Gender
    Female
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Address
    Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Joseph Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Farren Connell, Co. Cavan