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1. Bannow's Bright Blue Bay (continued)

   

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   And now they say that it doth lie Beneath its strand of foam And to mourn their ancient Citys loss The peasants love to roam And often in the even time Those phantom streets they say Are seen beneath the tranquil waves Of Bannows bright blue Bay Ive roamed thro many an Irish scene Where nature fairest dwells Thro woodland scenes and valleys green Those mountain lakes and fells But fresher far my memory keeps One place more loved than they Where Bannows bured city sleeps Beneath that bright blue Bay.

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2. Farewell to Bannow

   

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   Farewell to Bannow.

   Farewell to thee Bannow forever
   The home of my childhood adieu
   Since Fate has decreed it to sever
   They emerald hills from my view
   No more on the banks shall I wander
   Save only in thought oe'r the sea
   And mine shall no heart ere be fonder
   Dear Bannow my birthplace of thee

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   The foaming Atlantics dark dangers
   I must wander oe'r to seek rest
   A home in the land of the stranger
   Remote in the land of the West

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