The Wilmingtonian., 1824-05-06


What they pleased, nor would they bring bill in
the morning to them. |,
".My love and friend, dreamed through my
slumbers, that your castle fcll decay,
and that no person remained at It. The brds
sung sweetly no longer, nor were there leaves up
on the bushes all was silence and decay the
dream told me that our beloved man was lost 10
us-that the noble horseman was gone the re
nowned Squire Cox
"' My love and darling, you were nearly reIa-
ted to the Lord of Clare, and to O'Donovan OF
Bawnehan: to Cox with the blue eyes, and TO
Townsend of White Court. This is the appoint
ed day for your funeral and yet see none of them
coming TO place even green sod over YOU
Number lis the lamenation of a man named
|O'Donoghue, of Affadown, or Roaring Water, in
the west Of the county Cork, for his three sons
and son in.law, who were drowned. 'Ihe aUiM
Geese an idion used in the last verse, was pop
ular name given to such young men AS volunteer
ed into the Irish brigade
'It was on a rainy Monday; fair gale blew
and my sons left the shore AN halt an hour before
sunrise to fish in the sea; my children were
driven far away to be drowned. This year has
been the year of my ruin forever!
"Cormicl (Charles) my eldest child, he could
kill with his gun every bird that flew in alr-the
wild duck, and the partridge, and the grouse, and
black plover fthe lonesome mountains!
q" Cormick, my dear flower of young men,
and pure and good oh! glorious King of liea
vcn if thou hadst but spared him to me lit was
1.-THE loss of him that broke my heart entirely; ]
might could have parted with the reat
''Daniel, my dear Daniel, the youngest of my
sons, it was this day fortnight lie wss washed on
shore, without strength or life in his body saw
him he lay ifcless upon the shore, and my heart
w.s cold and dumb and motionless at the sight !!
"Children dear children, do you pity me? do
: you see me look on me, your poor father, crying
!. and lamentng for the sunshine of hi. eyes tor
the life of his life, for the soul OF his SOUL what
: he now IA poor broken-hearted old man, weep
ing alone in the cold corner of strangers house
ri $50 Great is my grief and sorrow. sadness and
{ tears weigh heavy on my Christmas. To have
c my four young and stout men thrown on the w','
i of the waves! Ii tie great ocean, or the DARK
. caves of the ocean would restore the three bodies
, that now lie in its depths, how beautifully the,
e would be keened and amented over in Afadown
t "sGreat is my grief and sorrow that you dlt
| not all 20 from your father on board ship or
l. my sons had LETT me for season, like the wi't
d geese, to 20 to a foreign land, then might have
d expected from my Maker the help OF my fou
q mild and clever young men some future day.
e These two, as being the most striking, though
is not the most peculiar must serve our purpose to
e exemplihcaon, as we still have more attraction
in the volume before us.
e. "The national exclamations used on the deaf
IS of friend or an acquaintance are often very ht
" u, alive May the heavens be his perch to night
d lis no uncommon ejaculation, on first hearing
al the loss of such What an original metaphor
IS this, and what fine allegorica picture does
s. present the soul springing upwards like a biz
ie and resting its weary wings after the flight !
te some bower OF bliss!
is Elsewhere some curious instances are adduce
10 of the fondness for hyperboe (not to use hsrs
er phrase than the authors own,) SO common
as the Irish character
r. "There is something remarkable in the ide;
ty of freedom and independence vaguely floating
10 the mind of an irish peasant; they seem only II
,c ferior to his pride, which exists in a degrt
ic wholly irreconciab!e with his condition thol
n. sand evils are the result. would, since yo'
,g honor bids me, but that scorn to demean myself
I'd is reply proof against any argument, that re
en- son or proprety can suggest. Bishop lierklt
er has mentioned kitchen wench in his family vi
he re fused to carry out cnders, because she was
N. scended from the ancient Kings of Ireland ar
k it would be ludicrous, were it not melancholy,
ng observe the consequences derived from IN
pride of ancestry The usual language of CO
ng dolence on a change OF fortune is He, who
NJ father was a real and undoubted gentleman. al
a whose mother was born and bred gentlewoma
ed ave and her mother before her. Every perso
therefore, in Ireland is y gentleman, or was &c
al teman, or is related 70 a gentleman and hen
on unfortunately arises self conviction that they
ed priyllc red to the enjoyment OF otlum cum di
he Initiate and tha, their ancestors having former
re possessed estates, they are therefore entitled
on. them 49,
ire "Poor, proud and sensitive, the Irish clara
,c ter is one to excite our pity. were not those fe
8 | ngs in some measure deadened by the counle
ras action IF Others and yet no doubt CAN be ents
for aimed of their innate existence. In commune:
,se cation with the peasantry, every account given
of them is in strain Of hyperbole have hea
he the resident Of a mud cabin speak with perfe
ty, assurance of his sd5auiR@ r0om'--sn aPartnc
,ut in the roof, to which he assembled by means OF
ast ladder; and the foot-way through his halt acre
lid cabbage garden, has become the 'r0Ga htrou
"; his farm As fair specimen OF what Mr.. Blu
tn not unapt!y terms Hibcrnian importance,' pt
sh. haos NAV be excused for the introduction Of
di. well known answer, IImder md fruit Civ
m from coasting vessel freighted with birch broo
of and potatoes, when hailed by revenue cruis
Mt, off Cork liarbor to ascertain her cargo.
rds "'The letter of village piper requesting pi
ire ment for his professional. eXertions at some lit
in. fcte given by the lady OF the manor is curio
he ty in its way, and can vouch for its gcnuinene
va. being acquainted with the parties.
ith To the Hon. ,frs b.
,%s Malam--The Bearer hereof is the piper Il
.~ n played for your Lordablc family at the Terrace
~ the 18th inst. and am referred to your Ho'
nr for my hire Your l. 'dy ships pardon ior my bo
10 ness would be almost compensation for my
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