Scoil: Gleann

Ar an leathanach seo

1. The Downfall of Schull (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Poor Schull, you have good cause to mourn
   You're looking dull and quite forlorn
   Today your streets are cold and chill
   With business down to nought or nil
   With Gabrils summits darkening frown
   Above the God-forsaken town,
   No wonder now, men curse and damn
   That slur on railways called "the tram"
   When empty wagons west and east
   It hauls twice per day at least
   And now about six times per year
   A steamer calls beside the pier.
   No craft upon the harbour floats
   But leaky yawls and lobster boats.
   I will not wait to further scan,
   Or each article touch upon
   For like a case in law-courts tried
   My story has another side
   At length one day the townsfolk got
   This dread command from Mr. Pratt,
   Who earns bread and daily fee
   As a member of the R.I.C.
   In case a hostile force should land
   Upon a quay or local strand,
   Or anywhere along the shore
   From Mizen Head to Baltimore,

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

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   Teanga

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   Bailitheoir

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