Tuesday 31 May 2011

The Irish Famine - By Pat Kenny

It began in 1846,
When hunger stalked the land,
But was the cause potato blight,
Or was it God’s own hand?
Some who died got watery graves,
Far away from church and steeple,
But those who left they brought their faith,
To other Nations’ people

Some fell by the roadside,
Cold sweat upon their brows,
Their faces lean, their mouths were green,
From eating grass like cows.
O why did this all happen,
We can only say Amen,
And the ways of God are wiser,Than the feeble minds of men.

The Famine now is history,
And Ireland’s fields are green,
We should all thank God for what we have,
And what it might have been.
We should not be too complacent,
As we take it in our stride,
And hear the echoes from the past,
To dampen down our pride.

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