School: Damastown (roll number 12327)
- Location:
- Baile Damail, Co. Bhaile Átha Cliath
- Teacher: Delia Wilson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 211
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- (continued from previous page)Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.Married in January's chilly time
Widowed you'll be before your time
Married in February's sleety weather
Life you'll tread in tune together.
Married when March winds shrill do roar
Your home will be on a foreign shore.
Married 'neath April's changeful skies
A checkered path before you lies.
Married when bees o'er May blossoms' flit
Strangers around your board will sit.
Married in queen rose month of June
Life will be one long honeymoon.
Married in July's flower bank's blaze
Bitter and sweet memories in after days.
Married in gold September's glow,
Smoothly along your life will flow
Married when leaves in October's thin
Toil and hardship for you begin
Married in veils of November mist
Fortune your wedding ring has kissed
Married in days of December cheer,
Love's star shines brighter
from year to year.
