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1. In Memoriam of John Henry De La Poer Beresford (continued)

   

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   III
   The shades of the evening were gloomy and gray
   In deep swathes of purple the hills hide away
   The moon veils her silver in gauzes of rain
   And low swelling cadence sweep up from the plain
   With its weird sobbing sadness the woodland throbs o’er
   For the banshee is wailing in sad Curaghmore
   IV
   Now forth from the courtyard it comes the last march
   Where dark sweeping branches form many an arch
   See his proud, prancing charger with ears all astrain
   For the voice of his master he lists, but in vain
   He will ride to the call of the bugles no more
   While the Clodagh goes sweeping by fair Curraghmore
   V
   Yet oft when the horn of the hunters shall sound
   When the hounds in full chorus sweep

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Coe

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Curraghmore, Co. Waterford

   Informant

   Mrs Joy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Portlaw, Co. Waterford