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Spirit of The Nation, The, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 7

Spirit of The Nation, The, Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 7
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James Duffy, Dublin, 1892
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[not indicated]
periodical Title
Spirit of The Nation, The
volume Number
1
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THE SPIRIT OF TIlE NATION. -6 TUB SPIRIT OF THE NATION.But Ireland still may proudly viewWhat that great hosthad cherished mostThe Arms of Eighty-two 1V.Time-honoured comrades of the braveFond relics of their fame,Does Ireland hold one coward slaveWould yield you up to shame?One dastard who would tamely viewThe aliens handInsulting brandThe Arms of Eighty-two?THE IRISH CATHOLTO TO HIS PROTESTANTBROTHER.Oh, Paddy, my boy,What makes you so shyTo oiu with your Protestant brother,Your brother?Sure you 11 never thrive,Unless you contriveTo be on good terms with each other,Each other.0hZ Sang.1.WHAT curse is on our land and us,That bigot strife so long has lastedThat every cheering prospect thusIs by its fatal influence blasted!That still, when. round our banner greenThe dawning hope of freedom. rallies,Religious discord comes between,To mi her poison in the chalice!II.Religious discord! Oh! shall man,The worm by doubt and darkness bounded,His fellow-creature dare to ban,For faith, in God, sincerely founded!A holier gospel let us preach,In spite of angry bigots railingHis own eternal hope to each;But love and peace through all prevailing.III.And are not all our ties the sameOne sod beneathone blue sky oer us;True Irish both in heart and nameOne lot, or dark, or bright before us?A thousand links about us woundTo peace and mutual kindness urge us;The very seas that gird us roundSpeak UMON in their sleepless surges.Iv.Remember glorious eighty-two,And wakening Freedoms voice of thunder;That spirit first was roused by you,Which burst at length my bonds asunder.How bright, though brief, the halo thenThat oer our common country lighted!Alas! the spoiler came again-He came, and found us disunited!V.Our annals stained with blood and tearsStill preach this warning, this example,The wicked feuds of bygone yearsAt once beneath our feet to trample.To have but one distinction known,One line from henceforth drawn among us,The line of false and true alone,Of those who love and those who wrong usVI.Unite with me, then, brother mine,Oppressor and oppressed no longer,A bond of peace well round us twineThan all the Saxons fetters stronger.Be Irelands good our common creed,Her sacred cause alone enlist us;With gallant hearts and God to speed,What power on earth will dare resist us?4I. ,SLIABLE CUILINN.
issue Number
1
page Number
7
periodical Author
[Various]
issue Publication Date
1892-01-01T00:00:00
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