The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-06-15

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may not perhaps be out of place remark here, that
there does seem to be some latent similarity between the phys
ica of country and its inhabitants The parts of
Great which the Gaelic was confined differ very
much in physical aspect from the remainder of the island and
are wonderfully like Ireland The seaboard of Great
is the part fiat and unpcturesque 1t con-
ssts of sandy reaches hundreds of miles, without harbors
and almost without ndentons but the of Gael
the indened varied and rock bound perhaps
world Along them all wildness grandeur beauty
From Cork harbor, in the south of Ireland Cape
Wrath of Scotland following the indented
bound coast of werd lonely magnfcence
be than perhaps other spot of the hababe globe
There such thing but startling SUGGESTIONS
from loneliness Here stupendous cliff, black
frowning, and horrible; there is smooth bay where all is
beauty and loneliness where fairy e carpeted with
verdure rise above the quiet Then reach
snuous lake that leads far the INTERIOR amid
ans of fantastic FORMS Handicapped and heathcad riven
asunder by gloomy passes opening into where the
the painter might dwell forever Never ending variety
sudden transitions the characters of the land of wonders
Like the that dwels it, it made of contradic
ons Beauty and close that they almost touch
Every unique and its character There
ories Cew Bay the horrors of Loeb Corusk one
all sofnes and beauty the other all ghtunes and sterity
Both peerless scenes they anywhere else would
be known the world and visited by the great but unfort
natey they lie far away amid furnishing Celts and the
that dwe by them have deferred
from visiting them. We all hate to gaze human wretch
edness, that keep away from
nau9h and the Isle of Skye
The Ce is manysided and varied his country He
changes all of sudden often without any apparent cause
from JOY sorrow from hope to despair from meekness
ferocity. Like musical instrument of greatest compass he
sound almost the instant every from the
dpason the treble He be the gayes the saddes the
gentest and the most brutal of mankind. He
pound contradictions and his mental attributes bear strong
impression of the physical pecuartes of the birthplace of
his Who could have conceived the mageres of Oan
anywhere amid the of chaotic grandeur of which
they the poetic embodiments The spirit of Morven
preside them all There is in them every physical pc
cularity the northern land of the Gael changed by
poets brain into poetic imagery everlasting the mighty
hills among which born, and to which it owed its BIRTH
Ossan simply poetic transcript of the mountains of Done
gall Such poems their existence physical nature
than ideal conceptions They glorious photographs of
the ruggedest and oveest nature Fnga only
human Morven that rises up colossal and gantlke
clouds and storms There in them unmstakabe Sadness
which the prophetic oeknowedge of the desoton that
upon those lands of sadness that sank
like lead into the poets he behed in the
dsmantled srongholds of his chief and the desoated pa
mony of his clan This strain of Sadness melancholy and
SO sweet present Celtic music poetry Some of
our most beautiful lamentations There have
that have died without murmur others have vanished
in shrek, but the Gael passing away songa song
sweet sad full of pahos and beauty that it melts
souls and makes wrongs the only details of which
those divine strains composed by particular individual
the Spontaneous utterances of a ruined race.
Yes the Gael is passing away but whence he going? Is
he going of existence like the Carhagenn into servi
like the Crcassian Not indeed but become part
and parcel and joint ruler of the mghest of ear nations
He sing his of by the Shannon and the lay
but he shout back defiance from the Mississippi and
shortly perhaps in triumph from the ST. Lawrence lie must
be TRANSPORTED before he can be triumphant Long his
night of has ben the first bright streak OF dawn Is al
ready plainly peceptble Long has he strained his eyes
watching for it in the East but he turns in an opposite d.
reeon and his eager and asonshed gaze behos the portals