KERRY'S MOUNTAINS GRAND.

New Zealand Tablet, 27 January 1921, Page 39

KERRY'S MOUNTAINS GRAND.

Our Isle of Green has always been Unparalleled elsewhere' ;: - • •/■'• s Her" holy wells, her mystic dells, \ And scenes of beauty rare; Her daughters bright, with laughter light, Spread .joy. throughout the laud, And the crowning smile of Erin's Isle Are Kerry's Mountains Grand.

Killarney dear is shadowed near By lofty emerald peaks, ; . - While to the sea run wild and free Magillicuddy's Reeks: Oh! often here, devoid of fear, Lay- hid a rebel band • Till dawn was come and victory won For Kerry's Mountains Grand.

Oh Kerry, dear, I'm glad to hear Your boys rose up once more, At Easter Week, their rights to seek And free their native shore. It. makes mo glad, but still I'm sad That I can't make a stand " And strike a blow at Erin's foe On Kerry's Mountains Grand.

Knockgashal's Hill, I see it still Beside..the murmuring Leel: \ There oft I sung "when I was young With rattlin' Danny Freal. ' Poor Dan lies dead in lowly bed, His Fenian gun in hand lie paid full sore for the love he bore To Kerry's Mountains Grand.

Oh! better still, beside that hill, :• To find a patriot's grave, Than 1 o'er the foam, far, far from home, .With?; strangers toil and slave! Yet still I'pray-to'see*the day * f$ 'When free- shall be our land,«; *&■-. From O'Donnell's Hall in Donegal To Kerry's Mountains Grand.

Grace Coylb Boyce.