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From the Irish

How hard is my fortune,

And vain my repining!

The strong rope of fate

For this young neck is twining.

My strength is departed;

My cheek sunk and sallow;

While I languish in chains,

In the gaol of Cluanmeala.

No boy in the village

Was ever yet milder,

I'd play with a child,

And my sport would be wilder.

I'd dance without tiring

From morning till even,

And the goal-ball I'd strike

To the lightning of Heaven.

At my bed-foot decaying,

My hurlbat is lying,

Through the boys of the village

My goal-ball is flying;

My horse 'mong the neighbours

Neglected may fallow—

While I pine in my chains,

In the gaol of Cluanmeala.

Next Sunday the patron

At home will be keeping,

And the young active hurlers

The field will be sweeping.

With the dance of fair maidens

The evening they'll hallow,

While this heart, once so gay,

Shall be cold in Cluanmeala.

Jeremiah Joseph Callanan