Scoil: Dean Kelly Memorial (uimhir rolla 16639)

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1. The Wood of Saint John's

   

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   The Wood of St. John's

   (about 5 miles from Athlone - Roscommon side - on the shores of Lough Ree)

   
   Ye dark solemn woods by the Shannon's green shore
   What rapture I feel as I see you once more
   And rest in your soul-soothing shelter today
   Where fleeted life's happiest moments away.
   When gay was my heart as the warblers whose song
   Enlivened each shady retreat all day long
   As in childhood's sweet days here I fondly delayed
   To cull the wild flowers of the emerald glade.

   
   How changed is each leafy arcade and lone dell
   Where erstwhile the fairies delighted to dwell
   And marshalled their hosts by the light of the moon
   As thick as the leaves by an autumn's blast strewn
   Where Druidic ghosts on the dark winter nights
   Come back to perform their old mystical rites
   And the banshee at eve sang her sad monotone
   When a soul from its weary clay prison had flown

   
   I see not alas my old favourite trees
   That sang me a soft lullaby in the breeze
   As I lay at their feet, and a calm holy dream
   (?) my soul used to steal like the moon o'er the stream.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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