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Thread #11870   Message #4041779
Posted By: GUEST,Starship
24-Mar-20 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Curragh of Kildare/The Winter It Is Past
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Curragh of Kildare
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ji1YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=The+winter+has+passed+And+the+summer%27s+come+at+last+The+smal

Lower half of p.88 in Lloyd`s Song Book (1846). There are earlier versions and it is variously attributed to the Scots and the Irish. (I found the book mentioned with a Google of the first four lines of the first stanza. FYI.)