Scoil: Ardlow

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Thanks for a Snuff-Box

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The poet received a letter written in verse from a friend, also a snuff-box. he sent the following reply:-
   Dear James, - with pleasure I perused your rhyme
   And 'tis entertaining, pleasing and sublime.
   Your writing's fair, you speak correct and clear
   And in your lines no blaring faults appear.
   Obedient nature to your aid inclines
   And lively diction sparkles in your lines.
   Your style is plain and easily understood
   And your muse conveys you through the vale and wood
   To paint the forest and describe the glen
   With your elastic, sweet attracting pen.

   And for the snuff-box you bestowed on me,
   While I exist your humble friend I'll be,
   But what avails my friendship now, dear James,
   When adverse fate my poverty proclaims
   A worthless outcast outside fortune's door
   Beneath the slur of every purse-proud boor?

   But cease, my muse I will not carp or quail
   Or entertain you with a plaintive tale;
   Of fate or fortune I will not complain
   But I'll recoil and praise the bor again.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Fitzsimmons

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Ardlow, Co. an Chabháin

   Faisnéiseoir

   Michael Meenagh

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   Fireann

   Aois

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   Baile an tSléibhe, Co. na Mí