The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-07-13

The moon bent its shadow with his in the thick of the
Dimmed his eyes when he onted the foeman like
When voyagng tempest he gazed the ship guiding STAR
When the mountainous pillows round and their kingy
Bodied death the rocks of ghess PERCEPTIONS Shore
By its presence all Places all times were made fearful; in
prayer
It's influence diverted its spirit however it might
pure faith to the heavens and wntered each radiant hour
Of the lovers when whispering sunset in chamber bower
Companioned lonely, on land ocean, all where
Like his shadow lived by him this hell shadowed feared
Phantom Power.
Thus three restless years had sped mid the pleasures and
din
Of the court and the field and the shadehated prince had
grown thin;
And his signs were half loves and half deaths, when
voice in a dream
Proclaimed that the fate he endured because of the sin
Of his father whose demon he knew not till then was the
Which pursued him. and counseed that spreading swift sails
the wing
Of the Winds he by Emer companoned with mornings first
Should journey the bay of Snam Agech and thence voy
aging
On the Northern seas Columbia at Hy should entreat
With prayer the great Saint by his influence
And power with the heavens the spell he had layed
the soul
Of the monarch and Danish the demon that followed his feet
So the lovers set forth in pnnace that held but the twan
Der the breezy blue spacious of the foamned man
And though like cloud it still followed their
toward the pole,
It's approach by their hymns averted, and its power
seemed to wane
And when the third in its fulness in the sky
Arose the waters hills and the churches of Hy
The cliffs of the streams the blue nles with and
tombs,
The white strand of the monks Grams grave and the
beal Mari:
And past copses of nut trees and yellow ze down and
we'll
They entered the church, and along by each anchor CELL
Approached the high altar beneath where the great
looms,
And prayed to its patron COLUMBIA to Danish the spell;
And they yet knelt, and with whispers the stiffness
beguiled,
Emma stopped like green ASH Emer like flower wild,
A figure gigantic stood by them, majestic in mien
Lightning eyed but whose countenance through his
cochal, mild,
Who alued each forehead with kiss of sweet peace and
with prayer
And deep incarnation averted the from the pair
And their spirits freed and the shadow longer was
As they bent to that warrior of Christ smiling down them
there. s
is the Lanized form of the Celtic Coum-ce-
Servant the Dove Darmud MacCao slain in the battle
with Aodh Dub oSubhne King Dalarada at Rah Beg in
Moyne near the town of Antrim $685. by Eoch Tomacara.
King Connaugh who had been under the protection Columbia
the cradle of the Daaradan whose prn
tribes Cnel Gabhram Cine Aengisa and Cnel
the chiean Macbeth
the Cona sixth king of British Daarada that
and church of Hythe island better known Iona
Clonmacnose the meadow of the No
Cean in 49, On the island Iona the of Oran
oldest monuments e present architectural ruins
from the 18th century, oran was the first Christian buried there
who the landing of ST. Columbia submitted voluntary
which supposed in those days be the deliver
ing duidica influences The
indicate antiquity Thus Aonadh- Sruth
cnange the hill angels;
Mary chape Shame Agnech Carlngord Bay in the
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