School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 140
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- Fill high your glasses
Time swiftly passes
And drink a health to your far off home
To your lakes and mountains, your vales and fountains
Where oft in childhood you used to roam.
Poor exile pining a distant clime in
Far, far away from your sparkling rill
We will banish sadness and drink with gladness
To the days you spent round sweet Mullagh Hill.
II
Some broken-hearted from home had parted
And will ne'er again tread their native strand
More, fondly dreaming bright visions gleaming.
Of fame and fortune in a foreign land.
To see them stealing full of kindred feeling
With bitter grief for their country's ill
And with bosoms heaving, the lake when leaving
A last fond look at Sweet Mullagh Hill.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- J. Drury
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
