School: Gleannóg, Malla (roll number 9448)
- Location:
- An Ghleannóg, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Mrs K. Barrow
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0363, Page 068
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Come: let us away from the noisy town,
The clamour of crowded marts,
We will go where the pulse of life beats low to the music of quiet hearts
Where corncrakes shrill through the scented dusk and the dew drenched meadows are sweetIV
Down the winding ways of the old boreen, we wander on spirit wings
While the haunted air is a-quiver, with nameless things.
The crickets will chirp a welcome home and the daisies look up to see
While the long long years that have drained our tears shall fall from us - you and me. V
We will make our way to the fairies well, for deep in its crystal flow.
May linger gleams of broken dreams, we dreamt long ago.
Gasing again in its murmuring depths we may see. in a blinding light(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Richard Matthew Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Seanbhóthar, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mrs Matthew Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Seanbhóthar, Co. Chorcaí
