School: Cortubber
- Location:
- Cortober, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mary A. Burke
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- (continued from previous page)Now he wasn't long in College till the Revd. Bishop Brown
Came viewing those Collegians he viewed them all around
He spied our noble hero he marked him above them all
He was the first he did discourse and on him he did call
Says he my mother she is a widow and of a low degree
But she'll do her whole endeavour to make a clergyman of me
Study hard by night and day the bishop he did say
And I'll send you home a credit for your country boys to see.Now when our young man came home ordained
The neighbours were glad to see
And how they came to welcome him
They ran in twos and threes
Particuarly his own dear friends to welcome him they ran
And you never saw such welcome as they gave the widow's son(continues on next page)
