Gone those sanguine days of slaughter,

Sword and matchlock, pike and brand;

Peace now o’er the ways of water,

Peace o’er all the length of land.

Yet sometimes when night is sealing

Cairn and ruined shrine from view,

Down the Kerry glens goes pealing

That wild cry—“O’Donnell Aboo!”

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NIGHTFALL IN SLIGO

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