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- come now to Kilcoole this time in Kilcool from
those other times other homes nearer town
we have seen to Kilcoole further out (curtain
up) to live in Kilcoole papa dead we have
seen and then mamma perhaps of grief or
partly grief that simple bug that but for grief
enfeebling but we have seen no more of that all has
been weighed all that remained and tip
tip now the one scale now the other and so
no more those other times other homes what remained
we have seen and now Kilcool that time in
Kilcoole with this aunt to go on living with
this aunt in Kilcoole both parents gone we
have seen having nothing and this aunt came
forward to take the girl away the orphan
girl to take her to her bosom and take
her to her home in Kilcoole further out this
widowed childless aunt to go on living with
her in her humble home in Kilcoole that is
the time we are come to now. (Pause.)
Oh God grant - (Pause.) Oh grant
Time the Father ... that dark when she dies
when she so young so long ago was laid in
Redford by the sea when we come to that
time that dark room now where she was
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