School: Kildalkey (C.) (roll number 868)
- Location:
- Cill Dealga, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Máire Nic Dhiarmada
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- (continued from previous page)Adown the gently sloping Hill,
With voice like music on a rill
Thus rendering his favoured strain,
In home-spun garb came Mary Jane. - Sweet Ballyfallon's floral lawn
Now dons the robes of Spring,
The song-birds in yon nodding woods
Once more in concert sing -
To listen to their choiral notes
Oft hither did I rove;
Hail! Newtown vales and pleasant dales
Around the Dark Pine Grove.Here foxes, hares and feather game
Sport o'er the landscape wide,
And here the glowing milk-maids songs
Resound at eventide -
Here first I met with milking pails
The maiden whom I love -
Hail! Newtown vales and pleasant dales
Around the Dark Pine Grove.Though poets praise fair Italy
I never heed their dreams,(continues on next page)