The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-15

and called Heaven witness that VOW. They exchanged
bibles and parted looking to speedy reunion but death
came between and they earth met again. In Dunn
fries the ashes the great poet There haowed dust
in Greenock Also that lover of Burns fail to
paying pilgrimage to the tomb of Highland Mary
kdrFs Legacy.
We subon copy of the beautiful poem referred to in the
above extract 1t is addressed to Mary in Heaven"
Thou lingering star, with lessening ray,
That lowest to greet the dewy morn,
Again thou unsherest in the day
When Mary from my soul was torn
Oh, Mary, dear departed shade
Where is thy place OF bsstul rest?
Seest thou thy lover lowly laid
Hearst thou the groans that rend his breast
That sacred hour can forget?
Can | forget the haowed grove
Where, by the winding Ayr, we met
To live one day of parting love?
Eternity will not eface
Those records dear of transport past;
Thine image at our last embraced
Ah little thought we twas our last.
Ayr gurglng kissed his pebbed Shore
Oerhung with wild woods, thickening green
The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar
Twned amorous round the raptured scene.
The flowers sprang wanton to be pressed
The birds sang love every spray
Till too too soon the glowing west
Proclaimed the speed OF winged day.
Still DER these scenes my memory wakes
And fondly broods with miser care;
Time but the impression stronger makes,
As streams their channels deeper wear
Oh, Mary dear departed shade
Where is thy place of blissful rest?
Seest thou thy lover low y laid?
Hearst thou the groans that rend his breast!
WILLIAM WALLACE.-We know nothing of precedents
which might lead anticipate his public history he
do his part like actor who just have figured
in any other character tragic comic His father was
knight and land owner having the estate of Eerse, in
Renrewshre. He had himself been knghted and thus
by the etiquette of Norman chvary well entitled to lead
armies noble monarch of his day To which
holn
question that has been deemed interesting since he
certainly the representative and champion of that remnant
of the Saxon pure Morse nhabtant of Britain who had
been subjected othe southern yoke But social posi-
ton of weight in this matter than origin
If family had been living among the Scots people from
generation to generation, maered not whether the rst
who pitched his tabernacle there had from Denmark
Freslandwheher he had been of the Saxons of Eng
land seeking refuge from the tyranny of Williams forest
laws grandson OF one OF Williams own followers. The
interests and feelings of such family would be IN harmony
with those of the commonay of which they were part
and it of such family that William Wallace came.
The later and mnsres of his native land have
prosey rumpeted his personal prowess and his super
human strength that part of euogy has stuck to history
Whatever his personal strength have been his achieve
mens demanded qualities of higher order he man
of political and military genius As soldier he was
of those marveousy gifted arising long Intervals
who through the military supersttons OF the day,
and organize of those elements which the pedanc
soldier rejects rubbish Of the character in which Wal
lace first became formidable the accounts in literature
distractngy conflicting With the chronicers OF his own
country who after the War of Independence he is
raised to the highest pinnacle of magnanmy and herosm
To the English cotemporary chroncers he is pestent
rufan finally, robber-the head of of many bands Of
robbers and marauder then nfesng Scotland But Edwards
government and organization not of kind to permit
sornng and robbery There far formidable
powers work than those which the administration Of
criminal Justice could cope with The people exasper
ated and all ready rise against their oppressor
wanting but leader and the of events brought them
that leader in Wallace Among the many who have chron
icled his fame, Harry the blind minstrel preemlnent
having devoted his whole force the clarifying of his hero
Harry blind wandering minstrel but he belonged
while he addressed the commonay their patriotic
ardor he received great mems tables He deals with
events however, which two hundred years old when he