School: Wexford (4) (roll number 12524)
- Location:
- Wexford, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Victoria M. Sherwood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)Martin mounted a white horse riding across the waters of Wexford bay and pointing to the shore in solemn warning. After that dread night there 65 weeping widows in the Faythe and 80 bodies were cast up by the sea on the following day."Oh stay ye" cried the widow wild,
"Stay, cried the men white haired.
"And dare ye not to do this thing,
Your fate is never dared."Thrice it waved,and thrice it pointed,
Then with clenched hand upraised,
the awful shape went down again,
Before the fishers as they gazed. "Oh! wives and mothers, sweethearts, sires,
Well might ye mourn it next day,
For seventy fishers corpses,
Strewed the shores of Wexford Bay"
