School: Dean Kelly Memorial (roll number 16639)
- Location:
- Athlone, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: D. Cahalene
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- (continued from previous page)Like the sadd'ning mementoes I found to remain
Of loved friends of my youth whom I sought here in vain
The spot where these trees reared their branches on high
Calls up from my bosom its tenderest sigh
For the stranger came here and his Vandalic hand
Which (?) every beauty that graces our land
Has levelled to earth these tall giants that stood
Like wary old sentinels guarding the wood
And the Shannon that calmly flows on by their side
Shall receive their dark shadows no more on its tide
Nor bear far away their sere leaves autumn -tost(?)
Like blighted heart hopes on Time's stream that are lost
Yet wasted old woods still to me are (?) dear
And dimmed is my eye with a sorrowful tear
As from your recesses I slowly depart
Whose memory for aye shall lie fresh in my heart
As westward the sun fades in hues gay and bright
And robed are the trees in a mild amber light
And hushed is the stream in a motionless spell
Loved haunts of my childhood I bid you farewell