School: Corrabha (Curravagh)
- Location:
- Curraghvah, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: (name not given)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0965, Page 338
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A Song (continued)
“Pray wait awhile my weeping child the cause of all the waiting”
(continued from previous page)Glangevlin thou are deeply plunged in grief and desolation
There is nothing heard throughout the land but one long lamentation
The face of nature dark and dim and wrapt in tribulation
The songsters cease their tuneful notes at this awful revelation
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The Shannon seems to gush forth in tears of bitter anguish
And from its basin to the sea resound a mournful cadence
The swans and fish of that fine stream in gloom and grief retire
All seem to say he’s dead today - farewell thou brave Maguire
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- Collector
- Brighid Ní Shiordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrick West, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Sheeran
- Gender
- Male