School: Donore (roll number 6668)
- Location:
- Dún Uabhair, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Maighréad Nic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0682, Page 070
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- The Judgment DayWhilst I incline to state those lines attend to what I say,
Hoping that it may profit you upon a future day.
The final day I mean to lay as clearly as I can,
Before your eyes which with surprise should fill the heart of man.
When the last trumpet it will sound t'will rent the lofty skies
And sound beneath each silent grave saying, "All ye dead arise".
In the troubled ocean wide also where thousands they do sleep
At the pronouncing of these words, "Arise ye from the deep".
This trumpet will resound also in the lower abyss of hell,
And soon will rent and issue out from that benighted cell
Those wretched souls both black and foul come forth without delay
But yet expecting no relief by the coming of that day.
As quick as thought ye then are brought, as Divines do well agree,
Into the valley of Jehosephal, near to Mount Calvary,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Mc Cormac
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dún Uabhair, Co. na Mí
- Informant
- Mathew Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Plaitín, Co. na Mí
