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| VIEW OF BALLYSHANNON, CO. DONEGAL. -The above picture sketches the ancient town of Ballyshannon, on the Erne, from a different point of view to that presented in another place, and gives, we think, a very faithful idea of its general aspect. While the olden town rises in stately fashion beyond the rapid river, the omnipresent donkey and cart appear in the foreground, while, on the left, the upper section of a cow shows from among the rocks, and behind stands a man, with a brood mare and foal or "colt," as we call it in America, the latter evidently bent practically on obtaining luncheon from its gentle dam. We have dealt extensively with this place in another sketch, so we will ony further say in this, that the town gave birth to one distinguished Irish poet, William Allingham, who was born in 1828, and died, in London we believe, a few years since. On leaving his native place he wrote that touching farewell, familiar to most Irishmen, and concluding thus: Oh, dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam through lands and waters wide, And if the Lord allows me, I surely will return. To my native Ballyshannon, and the winding banks of Erne. |
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