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Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Anniversary of the Arranmore Disaster (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   As they tossed to and fro on the wave -
   No help at hand came from the land
   Their precious lives to save
   Twenty was the number of human lives
   That in that boat set sail;
   Only one survivor was left
   To tell the world the tale
   The other nineteen passengers
   Went down to rise no more
   And many a weeping friend they left
   On the Isle of Arranmore.
   That one survivor he fought his way,
   Valiant and brave and bold;
   Two of their lives he tried to save -
   All foundered with the cold.
   No human being was there to lend
   A hand, their lives to restore,
   Once Neptune bold, who rules the waves
   Washed them far out from the shore
   No tongue could tell the hardships,
   That young man did endure;
   The whole night long he watched the land
   But no relief came near.
   As the night advanced, there was a little chance
   Of people being about,
   But he watched the houses that were in view,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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