The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-22

And we cried unto the living God who rules the tate OF
To fgbt for His own holy name and Henry of Navarro
The Kino has come to marshal u.s. in all his drest
And he hath bound snow-white plume upon his gallant
He looked upon his people, and the tear in his eye
He looked upon the traitors and his glance stern and
Right gracousy he smiled on U.S. rolled from wing to
wing
Down all our lines the deafenng shout, God lord
the King"
"And if my standard bearer fall, fall full well he may,
For never saw promise yet of such bloody fray,
Press where We my white plume shine amid the ranks OF
war,
And be your oraamme to-day the helmet of Navarro"
Hurra the foes are moving bark to the mingled din
Of fife and steed and trump and drum, and roaring cul
verin.
The fiery duke is pricking fast ST. Andres plain
With all the hreling chiyary of Gudres and Amaine
Now by the lips OF those ye love- fair gentlemen OF france
CHARGE for the golden lilies now upon them with the lance
thousand spurs striking Deep thousand spears In
thousand knights are pressing behind the snowwhe
And in they BURST and they rushed while like guild
Amid the hickest carnage waved the helmet of Navarro
Now God be praised the day ourMayenne hath turned
his rein;
DAumale hath cried for quarter and the Flemish Count is
slain.
The foe breaking like thin clouds before Bscay gale;
The field heaped with bleeding eeds and flags and coven
And then we thought of vengeance while all along
Remember ST. Bartholomew" was passed from man to
But out spake gentle Henry No Frenchman is my foe;
Down. down with every foreigner but let your brethren go
Oh there such knight in friendship or in war;
AS sovereign ege King Henry the soldier OF Navarre
Ho maidens of Vienna, no! matrons of Lucene,
Weep weep and rend your hair for those who shall
Ho Phillip send for charity thy Mexican pistoles,
That Antwerp monks may sing Mass for thy poor spear
Ho gallant mobiles of the League look that your be
bright
Ho burgers of ST. Genevieve keep watch and ward to-
night,
For our God has crushed the yran God has raised
the slave,
And Knocked the counse of the wise and the vaor of the
brave
Then glory to His holy NAME from whom all gories
And glory sovereign ege, King Henry of Navarro
EDWARD THE CoNFEssoR-His appearance such
could forget. 1t almost that of Albno His
fuhushed rose-red cheeks strangely contrased with the
milky wheness of his waving hair and beard His eyes
always fixed the ground. There was a sort OF
magical charm in his thin white hands and his long trans
parent fingers which not unnauray led to the belief that
there resided in them healing of strokng away the
diseases of his subjects His presented singular
mixture of gravity and leity Unusually aabe and gentle
to make refusal look like an acceptance he
burst forth times into fury which showed that the old
Berserker rage dead within him. "By God and his
mother will give you Just another turn if in
my way the utterance of what thought by his
bographers very mild expression of his noble indignation
against peasant who ntereed with the pleasures of his
chase. Ausere his habs-old even child-he
startled his courers sometimes by peas of boisterous laugh
ter for which they he could only account by curious
vision which had passed across his mind without their knowl
edge His time was almost equally divided between devo
tional exercises and hunting He would spend hours in
church, and then days together in hawking and cheering
his hounds There reckessness and hardness in his
behavior towards those whom he most bound. He
harsh his mother His strange alienation from his
wife, in that fantastic age, thought extremely
questionable "There nothing, it sald THAT he
could not promise from the exigency of the time" He
pledged his faith both Sides and confirmed by oath every
that
this king in Roger de Hovedens Annals" 1865. The
queen and Earl Howard knowing the of this queer
ruler had got together certain moneys four pennies from
every hide of land throughout England in order to the
clothing OF the aud royal servants On certain day.
the earl and queen took him the treasury Westminster
to see this cash. and Edward in whom suspects
thing OF keener than his hographers observe