The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1873-02-21
Erin's Flag.
ny FArnAR RYAN.

Let it float Ger the land, let it float DER the
seas
Lift it out of the dust let it wave as of
yore,
When its chiefs with their clans stood
around it and swore
That never mo never, while god gave
the life,
And they had an arm and sword for the
strife,
That never : no !--never, that Banner
should yield
As long as the heart ofa Celt was its shield;
While the hand Of Celt had weapon to
WELD,
And his last drop of blood was uhshed on
A the field.
Lift it up wave it high tits as bright as
Of old geia3
Not stain on its Green, not blot on its
Gold,
Though the woes and the wrongs of three
hundred long years
Have drenched Erin's Sunburst with blood
and with tears
Though the clouds OF oppression enshroud
it in glsom,
And around it the thunders Of tyranny
hmm
Look aloft look aloit 10 tho clouds drift
ing by, a
There's CLEAN through the gloom, there's
light in the sky, lf
'Tis the Sunburst resplendant--far, flashing
on high
Erin's dark night is waning, her day dawn
is nigh a
Lift it up lift it up! the old Banner Of
Green A
The blood of its sons has but frightened
its sheen,
What though the tyrant has trampled it
down,
Are its folds not emblazoned with the deeds
of renown?
What Though for ages it droops in the
dust,
shall.it drooop thus forever f--no, mol God
Take it'upl take 1t up! from the tyrant's
foul tread, r6G 9ra1 a
Let him tear the Green Aag--we will snatch
its last shread,
And beneath it we'll bleed as our forefathers
bled,
And well vow by the dust in the graves oi
l-f4tf S"A uS"N' .f. ~ aa -tt4f se.A
And we'll swear by the blood that the
Briton has shed
And well vow by the wrecks which through
Erin he spread
Aud wen swear by the thousands who fam
| ished, unfed
Died down in the ditches--wild bowling fol
bread,
And we'll vow by our heroes, whose spirits
have fled aEs
And we'll swear by the bones in each coffin
less bed,
That wen battle the Briton through danger
aud dread;
That we'll cling to the cause which we glory
to wed,
Till the CLEAN of our steel and the shock o
| our lead
Shall prove to the foe that we meant what
| we said
That we'll lift up the Green and we'll tsal
down the Red.
Lift up the Green Flag oh it wants TO &C
| W home !; as
Full long has its lot been to wander ant
II has followed the fate Of its sons Ger th,
world,
But its folds like their homes, are not fadet
or fHrled; lao4ls
Like weary-winged bird, to the East ant
the v est, .
It has fitted and fled-but It never shal
rest, a
Till, pluming its pinions, il sweeps Ger th'
1 main, r- tsv t
And speeds to the shores of its old homt
again,
Where its fetterless folds, o'er each noun
tain and plain,
Shall wave with glory that never shal
wane.
Take it up take itup bear it back from
afar--
That Banner must blaze mid the lightning
of war;
Lay your hands on its folds, lift your eye
to the sky, e2lA 'tpH ~.
And swear that you'll bear it in triumph o.
die, m1 ,r ns II.
And shout to the clans scattered far o'e
the earth,
To Join in the march to the land Of thei
birth; '4 ia 4li at ,b7 ssi
And wherever the Exiles, meath heaven
l.
Have been fated to suffer, to sorrow an,
roam,
They'll bound to the sea, and away DER tn
a foam, i9 r
They'll march to the music of HHome, swee
home"
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A WRITER in the Technologist Gays tha
he has in his possession flower stakes tina
have been in constant use for over min
years. To preserve them be takes comno
coal tar and bringsit to boiling point in
kettle some ten or twelve inches deep. H
places the lower cad Of the stake in th
boiling tar, immersing it as deeply as th
pot will allow. After being 10 tho tar e
about ten minutes the stakes are taken ou
} aud the tarred part rolled in sand.