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While the mother rejoie'd o ' er her cbildrea distress ed , And ciasp'd the invader more close to ber breast .
" When with pale for the body arid pale for the sou ) , Church and State join d in compact to conquer the whrile - And while Shannon ran ped with Milesian
blood , Ey'd each other ? wkance , and pronounc ed it was good 1 u By the groans that ascend from your forefathers' < grave ,
For their country thus left to the brute and the ^ lave , IXrw $ 4 ke demon of bigotry home to his den , And wlwre Britain made brutes miw let Erin make men ,
u Let my sons , like the leaves of their shamrock , unite , A partition of sects fFom one ^ ob ' tetaelk of rig * ? t 5 Give « acti his fell -share of libis e ' tfrtb'tftKl yon sky , $$ or fatten the ^ slare whe re tbe setfpent would die !
u Alas ! for poor Erin , that some still are seen Who would dye the grass red in their hatred * o green ; Yet , oh t when you ' re up and they down , let them live , Th « n yield them that mercy which they did nOt ^ ive .
ig Arm of Erin ! prove strong-, but be gentle as bra * e , And uplifted to strike , still be ready to js aie j Nor one feeling of vengeance presuine to defile . The cause , or the nien of the Emjeraj . iJ Isle *
* The cause , or the men of the Emerald Isle . It may appear puerile to lay claiin to a priority of application in the use of ati epithet , Ibut poets , like bees , have a very strong- sense of property , and both are of that irritable kind as to be extremely jealous of
anyone who robs them of their hoarded sweets . The sublime epithet which Milton used in his poem on the Nativity , Written at fifteen years of age , ( his Ci thundef-d&sp . ing hand , " ) would have been claimed by him as his own , even after he had finished the
Paradise Lost . And Gray would prosecute as a literary poacher the daring hand that should presume to break into his orchard , and appropriate a single epithet in that line the most beautifully descriptive which ever wam written" The breezy call of Incense-breathipgirtorn . "
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" The cause it is good , and the mCn a- ^ true , u uu 7 are And tbe green shall outlive both the or ** and bhie ; or * & « And the daughters of Erin her trimnnk shall share , P With their full-swelling chest and their fair-fltfwi ngf hai r .
a Their bosoms heave high for the worthy and brave , ^ 6 ut no coward shall rest on that soft 8 * ell . ing wave 5 Men of Erin ! awake , and make liaite to be blest ! Rise , arch of the ocean ! Rise , Queen of the West r
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ASPIRATION . ( From ilie same . ) OI hovfr I long to be * at lest ! No more oppressing or opprert , To sink asleep 00 nature ' s nursing breast
In Earrflv * s green cradfe to be laid , Where larks may build , where lambs have playM , And a clear stream may tto'w , and soothe my hov e ring shade .
The twilight mem ry loves to spread , fiaply , may linger o ' er my head , And half illume the long-departed dead .
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THE HARP . ( Froth t-ke safne . J The Harp , our glory once , but now our shame , Follow * d my Country ' s fate , and slept without a name ! Angelic Erin brushed it with her wings—Surpris ed by sudden life , the troubling
strings Faintly gave forth one recollective strain , Then sought the quiet of the Tomb again !
On such authority , a poetaster reclaims the original use of an epithet— the Emerald Isle , "—in a party song-, written withoutthe rancour of party , in the year 1795 . From the frequent use made of the term since that time , he fondly hope * that it wOJ gradually become associated w » tn roe name of his country , as descriptive of its prime natural beauty and its inestimable value . A sweet-sounding * nain « is sometim e a wheel on which a ilation runs down to
posterity with greater ease and celerity . The Greek language charioteered tliat P ^ plfe to the temple of immortality 5 an f ~ taire sbvewjly remarks , that mMF ™*** are lost to the world , like the founder * 01 the Swiss Republic , Jfcelchtal , Stuffactoer , VaHkerfurst , &c . by thejaw-Tw ^ MgHj '* Z oatotton of their nvmen . — "I * $ f ^ " £ l pronon « er dea noms si re 5 p « et » blfi » n lcur cclebrite .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/46/
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