Miscellanies in Prose and Verse By Mrs. Catherine Jemmat |
Upon the Arrival in Dublin of the Marquis of HARTINGTON, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
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Upon the Arrival in Dublin of the Marquis of HARTINGTON, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
Ierne, wipe the falling tear away,The night wears out, salute the beam of day;
With gratitude receive that friend, whose hand
Holds out the olive branch to all thy land;
Whose pow'r assumes the reconciling part,
The fellow labourer of an honest heart:
Who bids the rancour of dissension cease,
And lulls contention on the breast of peace:
Returning love with fiercer ardour glows;
The fractur'd bone, united, stronger grows;
So from our union shall our strength improve,
Draw in one knot, and that our country's love;
And what Menenius did for ancient Rome,
Be told of Hartington in times to come.
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