[1] Collector of county cess.
THE THREE MONKS.
“It was with the good monks of old that sterling hospitality was to be found.”—Hansbrove’s Irish Gazetteer.
Three monks sat by a bogwood fire!
Shaven their crowns, and their garments grey;
Close they sat to that bogwood fire,
Watching the wicket till break of day—
Such was ever the rule at Kilcrea;[2]
For whoever passed, be he baron or squire,
Was free to call at that abbey, and stay,