Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0197
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- (continued from previous page)that he was unable to procure for her Lishnoo as a gift - vowed she'd marry him if he rode the dapple grey up the steps of her ancestral home. "Bar and bolt that gate secure:
No rebel hence must scurry
By path or pass or lovely moor"
Cries bold Captain CurryNite the Arch on creaking hinge
The portal stoutly clangs -
That iron gate with many a dirge
From muskets' fiery fangs."Pause, my captain, bold and brave,
The water wraith and sprite
Forbode for us a hasty grave
And ne'er a chance to fight"Ardoyne's fabled raven
With fetid beak and breath
At noon attached your infant child
Sure augur of the DeathRathrush 2 miles S of Tullow Co Carlow(continues on next page)