"Donegal Abbey":
Sacred Scribes soul-searching
the riddle of the chronicles
sagas of time and epochs
like loyal servants of learning;
four masters huddled to truth:
the scroll of the hollowed heart
seasoned by scholars in lonely craft
- the perpetual plough of Annals words!
Exalted quills, quenched dry parchments,
the ink whose flow ne'er parched;
annals embossed in zealous surge:
four monks in a labour of love
of acts, deeds, paths, like shoulders straight
- their lineage signed in brotherhood.
Oh golden age of Michael O'Cleirigh
sweet abode where Annals were born!
August abbey of the Four Masters
you stand like a Knight of our heritage!
2003
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