The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-07

preaching;
AfrIc ana Asia-half the rounded earth
IN leemlng lives the solemn truth are teaching,
g. Ihat insect millions may have human orth.
Sun-klssed and fruitful, every clod Is breeding
- a petty me- TOO small 10 reach the eye;
so must 1t be- with no man thinking leading
The generations creep their course ana die.
Hapless the lands, ann doomed amid the races,
Inat give no answer TO tins royal test;
Their telling tribes VIII droop ignoble faces,
1lil earth IN pity takes them back TO rest.
vast monotony may not be evil
But Gods light tells us 1t cannot be good;
Valley and hill have oeauty-out the level
Must bear shadeless and = stagnant brood.
l bring the tombstone, Motherland, to thee,
And test thee, trembling, fearing thou shouldst
lail
II fruitless, sonless thou vert proved 20 be,
All what would love and memory avail
Brave land God has plest tneeI
Thy strong heart feel,
AS touch tDee and test thee.
Dear and AS tne steel
To the magnet nes upward so rises tiny breast,
With motnerly pride to the touch Of the test.
See she smiles beneath the tombstone, looking
on her distant youth.
Looking down her line OF Leaders and OF Workers
for the Truth.
Ere the Teuton, Norseman, Briton, LETT the primal
woodland spring,
When their rule was might and raplne, and their
law painted king;
When the sun or Art and Learning still was In
the Orient;
When the pride of Babyonia under Cyrus hand
When the sphynx's introverted eye was fresh
with Egypt's guilt;
When the Persian bowed to Athens; when the
Parthenon was built;
When the Macedonian climax closed the Com
monwealths OF Greece;
When the wrath OF Roman manhood burst on Tar
gum for Lucrece
Then was Erin rlcn in knowledge-thence from
out her Oilamn's store
Kennel to-day by students only grew her ancient
SeqlcisuS More ~
Then were reared her mighty builders, VINO made
temples 10 the sun.
There they sland-the old Round Towers-show-
ing how their work was done.
Twice thousand years upon them, shaming all
cur later ART
Warning flugers raised to tell rs we must build
with reverent heart.
Ali we call thee Mother Erin Mother thou in
right OF years;
Mother In the large iruition, mother in the joys
ana tears
All thy life has been a sympol-we can only read
part,
God wlll noed thee vet with sunshine for the woes
-, that drench thy heart.
All thy lie mas heen symbolic OF human mothers
life;
Youth, with all its dreams, has vanished, and the
travail and the strife
Are upon thee in the present; but thy work until
today
Still has been for Truth and Manhood. and it shall
Justice lives, though Judgment fingers. angels
rect are heavy shod,
day of Cod
Out from the valley of death and tears.
From the war and want OF thousand years,
From the marx OF sword and the rust OF chain,
From the smoke ana blood OF rhe penal laws,
the Irish Men and the Irish Cause
come out IN the 'front.' oil the field again.
What says The stranger to such vitality,
WHAT says the statesman 10 TINS nationality2
Flung on the shore OF sea Of defeat
Hardly the sw miners have sprung 10 their feet.
When the nations are thrilled by Il clarion word,
And Burke, the MISREPRESENTATION, ~ heard.
When shall his equal beS Down from the stellar
height
Sees he the planet and all on Its gIrth-
India, Columbia ana Europe: his eagle sight
sweeps as u glance all the wrong upon earth.
Races or sects were TO him profanity:
HIndoo ana Negro and Celt were as one;
Large as Mankind was his splendid humanity,
Large In Its record the work he mas done
What need TO mention men OF minor note,
When there be minds that all the heights ATTAIN
What schooboy knoweth not the hand that wrote
''Sweet Auburn, loveiiest village oil the plalhT"
What man that speaketh English e'er can lit
His voice 'mld scholars who hath missed the lore
And wit OF Curran Sheridan ana Swift,
the art or Foley and tue songs OF Moorep
Grattan and Flood and Emmet-where Is ne
Tnat natn not learned respect for such as thesef
Who lovetn humor anu hath yet to see
Lover aud Prout and Lever and MaclBe2
Great men grow greater by the lapse OF time:
We know those least whom We have seen the
latest.
And tnev 'mongst those whose names have grown
sublime,
Who worked tor Human Liberty. are greatest
And now for one who allied will to work.
And thought to Act, and burning speech TO
Who gained the prizes that were seen by Burke
Burke Ielt the wrong-U'Connell felt ana fought.
Ever the same-from boynood up 10 death:
Ills race was crusned-his people were detained /;
lie found the spark, and tanned II with mis- breath,
And fed the nre, till all the nation namedl
He reused the Iarms-he made the serf a yeoman |
He drilled his millions and he laced the zoe;
But not with lead or steel he struck the foeman;
Reason the sword-and human right the blow
He fought for home-but no land limit bounded
O'Connel's iaiIh, nor curoed mis- sympathles;
All wrong to liberty must be coniounded
Till men were cnainleSs as the winds and seas.
lie fought for Ialth-but with no narrow spirit:
With ceaseless hand the blgot laws ne smote;
one cnart he said, all manklnd should Inherit
Tne right 10 worship and the right to vote.
Always the same-but yet gitterIng prism;
Ia w.t. law, StaJecrait, still master-hanu;
An ''uncrowned king" whose peoples love was
His tltle~Llberator of mis- landl
..His hearts in Rome, his spirit ls in neaven.p
So runs the old s0ug t@at his people sing;
tall round tower Lney buIlded In Glasnevln-
FIT Irish maidstone for an Irish king
Oh Motherlandl there Is NJ cause to doubt thee,
Tny mark + LETT on every shore to-day.
Though grer and wrong may cling like rooes
ABOUT thee
In faith ana pauence working, ana believing
Not power alone can make a noble State:
Wnate'er the lana, thougn all things else con-
ceivlng,
Unless It breed great men, 1t is not great.
GO on, dear land and midst the generations
Send out strong men TO cry the Word aloud.
Thy nlcne Is empty still amidst the nations
Go on IN latin. ana God must raise the cloud.
senehus Mor:" or Great Law the title of the Bre-
Fola who reigned 80 years C., organized irienpia
parliament al Tara the chiefs priests and 6ards who
digested the laws into record called the PsaIier OF
lara Ollamh Fola founded schools OF history, ncdi-
cine, philosophy, poetry and astronomy, which were
protected by his successors. Kmbath $50 b. c. ana
uKohy g u. CD also promoted civil Interests of
the Kingdom In a remarkable manner
WENDELL PHILLIPS ADDRESS.
Mr.. DonOhue then. without remark, introduced
wendell Philips, who was unable to begin mis- al 4.
dress Ior some moments owing to the LOUD and
continued cheering with winch he wes received.
When he raised his voice the whole house was
still III an instant, and nc began MS address In his
usual cool and unimpassionsd language, speaking
as foows:-
one nunured years ago to-day Daniel O'CoDnel Il
IN nitrltf In Ipt.4t