Ireland for the Irish Rhymes and Reasons Against Landlordism with a Preface on Fenianism and Republicanism. By W. J. Linton, Formerly of the Irish "Nation" |
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PATRIOTISM |
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PATRIOTISM
Love of Country!—Love of Ruin!
Case thy heart in triple steel!—
Yet Love quits not Her he knew in
Days of loveliness and weal.—
Days we knew not. To our thinking
Patience looks too like despair.
Save yourself! the ship is sinking:
Leave the wreck to perish there.
Case thy heart in triple steel!—
Yet Love quits not Her he knew in
Days of loveliness and weal.—
Days we knew not. To our thinking
Patience looks too like despair.
Save yourself! the ship is sinking:
Leave the wreck to perish there.
It may be that brave hearts linger,
Some proud captain to the last:
Yonder foaming wave will wring her,
Stem and stern; she's breaking fast.
We are tired of battling ever
With disaster's whelming sea:
We are weary of endeavour;
Let us die among the free!
Some proud captain to the last:
Yonder foaming wave will wring her,
Stem and stern; she's breaking fast.
We are tired of battling ever
With disaster's whelming sea:
We are weary of endeavour;
Let us die among the free!
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