Doggerel Verses ctd.

On a funeral being delayed while the priest had a meal he declaimed:-

"Heedless and careless
About the poor sinner
The people must wait
While the priest gets his dinner".

Christy Fox SHS 1973

SKERRIES

Sweet Skerries, by the shore I've lived
How many happy days!
And shall I, thankless, not indite
Some trifle in thy praise?

Shall I, who from thy wholesome breeze
Have drunk deep draughts of health,
In churlish silence hide the boom
Nor tell the world thy wealth?

Dear little homely, friendly town
Sweet jewel by the sea:
No lapsing time, nor lengthening miles
Can wean my heart from thee.

No frowing height of dangerous cliff
Scowls on thy curving bays;
Where, safe as on their nursery floor
A world of children plays.

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And on thy island-guarded beach
No thundering surges roar; *
But, over slopes of tawny sand,
Lap whispering to the shore

No frowning height of dangerous cliff
Scowls on thy curving bays;
Where, safe as on their nursery floor
A world of children plays.

And on thy island-guarded beach
No thundering surges roar; *
But, over slopes of tawny sand,
Lap whispering to the shore.

Here let them come who sunny hours
Would, peaceful, dream away.
Here hasten too, ye sons of mirth,
And hold high holiday!

Some climb time-gaunt Baldungan's tower
The landward airs to breathe,
Or scan, fair-chequered gold and green,
The wealthy plains of Meath.

Here, while upon your emerald links
The care worn counts his score,
The golfer's heart leaps up or sinks
As strokes are less or more.

Then, all unmindful of past grief
"Bogey" he marks with glee *
But, ah! the Recording Angel's pen
Writes down a century!