Elizabeth Shane

The lives of people that she knew in verse she did recall And what Ledwidge was to county Meath she was to Donegal She wrote about the coastal lands and the Islands of the sea And Elizabeth Shane still living in her beautiful poetry. Her verses pearls of wisdom and easily understood And what some may see as simple to me seems very good At her best in the nineteen twenties in Ireland's changing time When some of the literary critics were trying to bring about the death of rhyme. But it's thanks to the likes of Elizabeth amongst others that a culture did survive And that rhyme though out of fashion now still very much alive For without music, verse and rhyme and song how boring life would be The song and the music with the song live for an eternity Old Ireland it has changed so much since I was a young boy Still her book of verse of Donegal I really did enjoy The countryside and people she knew and loved in her verses she did recall And what Ledwidge was to county Meath she was to Donegal