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1. Glangevlin's Valley Fair (continued)

   

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   With strangers from a foreign land
   The pilgrims travelling home to God.
   And the mendicant oppressed with care
   Or the wearied wandered on the road
   All seek Glangevlin's valley fair.

   4.
   The towering height of the "Cuilcagh" mountains
   Or "Slievenakillas" rugged hill
   Doth look in splendour and famed renown
   And leave that lovely sainted vale
   The Limericks trace and Shannon's course
   And all around its majestic vale
   You can find its birth and rising source
   In sweet Glangevlins valley fair.

   5.
   Now I must go to my sad woe
   From youthful scenes which I adore
   Beneath foreign isles where freedom smiles
   And leave that lovely sainted shore.
   My memory clings but cannot forget
   First raised with joy now sunk with care
   But till I return a long farewell
   To sweet Glangevlin's valley fair.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Susan Dolan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corracleigh, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mrs Mary Mc Guire

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70

   Address

   Carrick West, Co. Cavan