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But the night dew that falls, though in silence it weeps,

LET ERIN REMEMBER THE DAYS OF Shall brighten with verdure the grave where he

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Then what will the yeomen do?

Says the Shan Van Vocht; What will the yeomen do?

Says the Shan Van Vocht; What should the yeomen do, But throw off the red and blue, And swear that they'll be true To the Shan Van Vocht? What should the yeomen do, But throw off the red and blue, And swear that they'll be true To the Shan Van Vocht?

And what color will they wear?
Says the Shan Van Vocht;
What color will they wear?

Says the Shan Van Vocht;
What color should be seen,
Where our fathers' homes have been,
But our own immortal green?

Says the Shan Van Vocht.
What color should be seen,
Where our fathers' homes have been,
But our own immortal green?
Says the Shan Van Vocht.

And will Ireland then be free?
Says the Shan Van Vocht;
Will Ireland then be free?

Says the Shan Van Vocht;
Yes! Ireland shall be free,
From the centre to the sea;
Then hurrah for liberty!
Says the Shan Van Vocht.

Yes! Ireland shall be free,
From the centre to the sea;
Then hurrah for liberty!

Says the Shan Van Vocht.

ANONYMOUS.

AS BY THE SHORE AT BREAK OF DAY.

As by the shore, at break of day,
A vanquished chief expiring lay,
Upon the sands, with broken sword,

He traced his farewell to the free; And there the last unfinished word He dying wrote, was "Liberty!"

At night a sea-bird shrieked the knell
Of him who thus for freedom fell;
The words he wrote, ere evening came,
Were covered by the sounding sea;-
So pass away the cause and name
Of him who dies for liberty!

THOMAS MOORE,

GOUGAUNE BARR

[The Lake of Gougaune Barra, i. e. the 1 St. Finn Bar, in the rugged territory of I O'Learys' country), in the west end of the cou parent of the river Lee. Its waters embrace a island of about half an acre in extent, which a ern shore. The lake, as its name implies, is hollow, surrounded on every side (save the ea abundant waters are discharged) by vast and al Inountains, whose dark inverted shadows are g its still waters beneath.]

THERE is a green island in lone Go Where Allua of songs rushes forth In deep-valleyed Desmond a t fountains

Come down to that lake from the mountains.

There grows the wild ash, and a willow

Looks chidingly down on the mirth As, like some gay child, that sad mo It lightly laughs back to the laugh o

And its zone of dark hills, — 0, brightening,

When the tempest flings out its lightning,

And the waters rush down, mid deep rattle,

Like clans from their hills at the voice And brightly the fire-crested billows And wildly from Mullagh the eagles a O, where is the dwelling, in valley So meet for a bard as this lone littl

How oft when the summer sun rest And lit the dark heath on the hills Have I sought thee, sweet spot, fr

by the ocean,

And trod all thy wilds with a minstr And thought of thy bards, when a

gether,

In the cleft of thy rocks, or the

heather;

They fled from the Saxon's dark slaughter,

And waked their last song by the rush

High sons of the lyre, O, how pr feeling,

To think while alone through that s

ing,

Though loftier minstrels green Erin I only awoke your wild harp from i And mingled once more with the v fountains

The songs even Echo forgot on her And gleaned each gray legend that sleeping

Where the mist and the rain o'er t were creeping!

Least bard of the hills! were it mine to inherit The fire of thy harp and the wing of thy spirit, With the wrongs which like thee to our country have bound me,

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Where is my cabin door, fast by the wildwood? Sisters and sire, did ye weep for its fall? Where is the mother that looked on my childhood? And where is the bosom-friend, dearer than all?

Did your mantle of song fling its radiance around O my sad heart! long abandoned by pleasure,
Why did it dote on a fast-fading treasure?
Tears, like the rain-drop, may fall without

me,

Still, still in those wilds might young Liberty rally, And send her strong shout over mountain and valley,

The star of the west might yet rise in its glory, And the land that was darkest be brightest in story.

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The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; And they perish of the plague where the breeze For his country he sighed, when at twilight

repairing

To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. But the day-star attracted his eye's sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once, in the fire of his youthful emotion, He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh.

Sad is my fate! said the heart-broken stranger;
The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee,
But I have no refuge from famine and danger,
A home and a country remain not to me.
Never again in the green sunny bowers
Where my forefathers lived shall I spend the

sweet hours,

Or cover my harp with the wild-woven flowers, And strike to the numbers of Erin go bragh!

Erin, my country! though sad and forsaken,
In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore;
But, alas in a far foreign land I awaken,

And sigh for the friends who can meet me no

more !

O cruel fate! wilt thou never replace me In a mansion of peace, where no perils can chase me?

Never again shall my brothers embrace me?

They died to defend me, or live to deplore!

of health is blowing!

God of justice! God of power!
Do we dream? Can it be,
In this land, at this hour,

With the blossom on the tree,
In the gladsome month of May,
When the young lambs play,
When Nature looks around

On her waking children now,
The seed within the ground,

The bud upon the bough?
Is it right, is it fair,
That we perish of despair
In this land, on this soil,

Where our destiny is set,
Which we cultured with our toil,
And watered with our sweat ?
We have ploughed, we have sown,
But the crop was not our own;
We have reaped, but harpy hands
Swept the harvest from our lands;
We were perishing for food,
When lo in pitying mood,
Our kindly rulers gave
The fat fluid of the slave,
While our corn filled the manger

Of the war-horse of the stranger!

God of mercy! must this last?

Is this land preordained,
For the present and the past

And the future, to be chained,

To be ravaged, to be drained,
To be robbed, to be spoiled,
To be hushed, to be whipt,
Its soaring pinions clipt,
And its every effort foiled?
Do our numbers multiply
But to perish and to die?

Is this all our destiny below,

That our bodies, as they rot,

May fertilize the spot

Where they watch their flocks increase,
And store the snowy fleece

Till they send it to their masters to be woven
o'er the waves;

Where, having sent their meat

For the foreigner to eat,

Their mission is fulfilled, and they creep into their graves.

'Tis for this they are dying where the golden corn is growing,

'Tis for this they are dying where the crowded herds are lowing,

'Tis for this they are dying where the streams of life are flowing,

Where the harvests of the stranger grow? And they perish of the plague where the breeze of health is blowing!

If this be, indeed, our fate,

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DENIS FLORENCE MAC-CARTHY.

GIVE ME THREE GRAINS OF CORN,

MOTHER.

THE IRISH FAMINE.

GIVE me three grains of corn, mother, -
Only three grains of corn;

It will keep the little life I have

Till the coming of the morn.
I am dying of hunger and cold, mother.
Dying of hunger and cold;

And half the agony of such a death
My lips have never told.

It has gnawed like a wolf, at my heart, mother,-
A wolf that is fierce for blood;

All the livelong day, and the night beside,
Gnawing for lack of food.

Thou sanctified Rienzi of Rome and of the earth, I dreamed of bread in my sleep, mother,

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What has poor Ireland done, mother,

What has poor Ireland done,

That the world looks on, and sees us starve,

Perishing, one by one?

Do the men of England care not, mother,
The great men and the high,

For the suffering sons of Erin's isle,
Whether they live or die?

There is many a brave heart here, mother,

Dying of want and cold,

While only across the Channel, mother,
Are many that roll in gold;

There are rich and proud men there, mother,
With wondrous wealth to view,

And the bread they fling to their dogs to-night
Would give life to me and you.

Come nearer to my side, mother,
Come nearer to my side,
And hold me fondly, as you held

My father when he died;
Quick, for I cannot see you, mother,

My breath is almost gone;
Mother! dear mother! ere I die,
Give me three grains of corn.

MISS EDWARDS.

WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?

WHAT Constitutes a state?

Not high-raised battlement or labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate;

Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned;
Not bays and broad-armed ports,
Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts,
Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to
pride.

No:-men, high-minded men,

With powers as far above dull brutes endued
In forest, brake, or den,

As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude,
Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain,

Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain;
These constitute a state;

And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Smit by her sacred frown,

The fiend, Dissension, like a vapor sinks;
And e'en the all-dazzling crown

Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks;
Such was this heaven-loved isle,

Than Lesbos fairer and the Cretan shore !
No more shall freedom smile?
Shall Britons languish, and be men no more?
Since all must life resign,

Those sweet rewards which decorate the brave 'T is folly to decline,

And steal inglorious to the silent grave.

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

CARACTACUS.

BEFORE proud Rome's imperial throne
In mind's unconquered mood,

As if the triumph were his own,

The dauntless captive stood. None, to have seen his freeborn air, Had fancied him a captive there.

Though through the crowded streets of Rome, With slow and stately tread,

Far from his own loved island home,
That day in triumph led,
Unbound his head, unbent his knee,
Undimmed his eye, his aspect free.

A free and fearless glance he cast
On temple, arch, and tower,
By which the long procession passed
Of Rome's victorious power;
And somewhat of a scornful smile
Upcurled his haughty lip the while.

And now he stood, with brow serene,
Where slaves might prostrate fall,
Bearing a Briton's manly mien
In Cæsar's palace hall;

Claiming, with kindled brow and cheek,
The liberty e'en there-to speak.

Nor could Rome's haughty lord withstand The claim that look preferred,

But motioned with uplifted hand

The suppliant should be heard, —
If he indeed a suppliant were
Whose glance demanded audience there.

Deep stillness fell on all the crowd,
From Claudius on his throne
Down to the meanest slave that bowed
At his imperial throne;
Silent his fellow-captive's grief
As fearless spoke the Isi: 1 Chief.

"Think not, thou eagle Lord of Rome,
And master of the world,
Though victory's banner o'er thy dome
In triumph now is furled,

I would address thee as thy slave,
But as the bold should greet the brave!

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