Dan And Nora Sullivan

They lived in the cottage by the gate to Tubrid Well the Sullivans Nora and Dan For at least three score and ten years in time a lengthy span Till failing health and the wear of age on them both did take toll And the turning back of the hands of time is beyond human control. The brother and sister Dan and Nora Sullivan I never more will see They were claimed by the reaper the one who will claim me But memories of them till my end with me I will retain And each time I look back on my past they come to life again I do recall at Christmas time Nora always remembered me A greeting card from a dear old friend beyond the northern sea She outlived Dan by six or seven years and news of her death reduced me to tears For a mentor and role model of my long gone childhod years. I knew them in my younger years from the same Townland as I Two people I looked up to when I was a school going boy, Dan and Nora Sullivan they could not live with a lie And it truly could be said of them that they would not harm a fly.