School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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- (continued from previous page)An Invitation (Continued)Just at the sixth century's close
And in the old chapel hard by it
O'Carolan's relics repose.
(VII)Dear land where your martyrs now moulder,
Your beautys my sorrows assuage,
Dear land of the saint and the soldier,
The scholar, the bard and the sage
Hasn't old Father Time set his landmark.
The dawn of your freedom has come -
Now where! tell me where is the landshark,
The agent, the bailiff or bum?
(VIII)All creeds here are kindly united,
In friendship and peace they agree,
And think with regret on what blighted
The hearts and the homes of the free;
Our bells pealing out the proud story
Of salvation o'er mountain and plain
To lead us to mansions of glory.
Whence never comes sorrow or pain.
(IX)This grand panorama before us
We'll sit on the daisy-clad hill
And list to the birds in full chorus
And the lilt of the stream by the mill(continues on next page)- Collector
- Carmel Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma