Scoil: An Ráth Mhór (Clochar) (uimhir rolla 13742)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Valentine Brown (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Woe is me! in Hamburg is the lord of the gentle merry heroes
   Aged, grey-browed eyes, bitterly weeping for each of these
   Have cause me ever to have recourse to the Valentine Brown

   V
   The feathers of the swift flocks that fly down the wind
   Like the wretched fur of a cat on a waste pf heather
   Cattle refuse to yield their milk to their calves
   Since Valentine usurped the nights of the noble Mac Carthy

   VI
   The feathers of the swift flocks that fly adown the wind
   Wondering whither the Mars had gone whose departure brought us to death
   Dwarfish churls pey[?] the sword of the three fates
   Hacking the dead crosswise from head to foot

   The subject of this pathetic, if bitter poem, was Sir Valentine Brown the fifth baronet of that name and the third Viscount Kenmare. He was born in 1695. During his youth he was an outlaw owing to the attainder of his father
   In November 1720 he married Honora Butler of Kilcash in the County of Tipperary who died of smallpox in 1730. He married secondly Mary daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald, Esq. of Castle Ishin in the County of Cork, the relict of Justin fifth Earl of Fingall. He died on 30th of June 1736. (See Archdalls "Lodge" vol vii, page 57.
   From numerous allusions throughout his works both

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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