, 1875-08-08


Bur. .hased and fruitful, every clod is breeding
petty ufe tho small to resch the eye:
30 must It be, With no Man thinking, leading
The generstious creep their course and die.
aaploss the lands, and doomed amid the raoss,
That givo no answer to this royal test
Their totltn2 tribes viii droop ignob!e faces,
Till earth in pity takes them back to rest
A vast monotony may not be evil,
But Coda light tells US It cannot be good
Valley and Ml have beauty-but the lerel
Must bear shadeless and a etagnans brood
bring the touchrtnne, Motherland, to thee,
fail.
II ffruitlesa, sonle=s, thou vert proved to b,
Al! what would love aud memory ayafl
Bravo 1and1 God has blest thee!
Thy strong heart feel.
Aa touch theo and test thea.
Dear Land! As the steel
To the MAGNET aies upward, 70 r1ses thy breast
With = naotherly pride to the touch Of the test-
sceI she smiles beneath the touchatone looking On
Looking down her line of Leaders and Of Workers for
Ere the % Teuson, ts northma, Brtton, LETT thu primal
When their rs v.s Eight and rsptne and their Law
When the Sun oi Art and Learning st1u va. in the
Orient;
When tho r;ae Of Babylonia under Cyrus hand WAS
When Tho sphynxs introveEted eya WIS freah with
When the Persian bowed to Athons vhen the Parthe-
When the M.cedouian climax closed the Common
wealths Of Greeee;
When the wrath Of Roman manhood burst on Tsrquin
Then was Erin 1irh in neutrality-suspicious. from out
her OnAmh's store
Kennoa to,a., BY students on'5.-sFe~ hnz sneasnt
Then were reared her mighty builders, Who made
temples to the SUM-
Thsre they staud-the old Bound ToVrrB-Ahowing
how their work done:
Twice thousand years upon tdena-shantng M our
Warming fingers raised to tel ns 70 must build with
rey'rent heart.
Al call thea Mother Erin Mother thou in right of
Mother IN tho large fsuiHon--mother In the Joys and
AL thy life has been = symbol-vs can on1y rsad =
God III aood thee yes with sunshine for the woes that
All thY life has bean symbolic Of = human mot hen =
YOUTH with III ita dreams, has santahed, and tho tr.
Are upon thee In the present. but thy work until TO-
still has been for Truth and Manhood--and it shall
1ustses dvss, though Judgment Hngera-snsel's feet
But planets yeacs moments IN th eternal day Of
Out from the wiley Of death and tear,
From the war and want Of thousand years,
From the mark Of sword and the rust Of chain,
From the smoke AMI blood Of the penal hwx,
The Irish 1Isn and the Irish Cause
Coma out in the front Of tbe fsld againl
What says the stranger to such vttanty7
What says the statesman to this nstionality1
Flung on the shore Of 4 sen Of defeat,
Hafdly the swimmers have sprung to their feet,
When the nations ara thrilled by c9ar1on-word,
And Burke, the sphiiosophes-stasesmAn, is heard
whrn aha1, his equal bo7 Down from thu s.oIlsr
sees be The planet and Ill on It's ghth-
India Columbia, and Europe: his eagles1Qh
Sweeps 1t glance all ths wrong upon earth.
Races OF aecta weEe TO him profanity:
Hiudoo and Negro and Cet were IS one;
Large a. Mankind was his splendid humanity
Large in its record the work be Las doue+
What need to mention men Of minor note,
When there be u1inds that all the heights atstnf
Whist schooiboy knoweth not the hand that wrote
"sweet Auburn. loseliest vilAge of the plain -
What mxn that speaket1 English eer can LIT
His yotcs mid scholars, who hath missed the 1oRs
And Wit Of Curran, Sheridan, and Swift
The Art of Foley and the songs Of Moors7
arattan and Flood and Emmet-where is hs
That hath not learned respect for such as thss7
Who loveth humor and hath yos to SEQ
Lover, and prout, and Lever, and Macuse7
Great men grow grcater BY the lapse Of time:
We know those least whom We have seen the lstest
And they, mongh taose WHOSE nainee 0A'e Rfo"n "oo
VII, worked for HunAn LIBERTY, are greatest
And oov for enc who allied win to work,
And thought 10 act and burning speech to thought;
Who oat7a<d the prizes that were seen by Burke,-
Huria felt Tho wrong 0Conneu felt, and fought.
Ever thu same-from boyhood up to death:
HIS .aca was crushed-his peopls were detAmed1
he found the spark and famed y With his Greash,
And fed tho hre, till ali the Nation haned1
He r,u.ed the farus-he made the se1f yeouian;
"a dTilled hts millions aud he faced the foe:
Hut not with lead or steel he struck th1 foeuan:
Reaaon tho svord-snd Human R1ghs The blont
Hs fonoht for Houae-but no land limit bounded
O'Connelps faith. nor curbed his aymp pathaes;
All wrong to Liberty must be con'ouaded.
Till men we're chaiuless II tbs Winds and seax.
He fought for Faith-bnt with no narrow spirit
With ceaseless hand the blgot laws ho slnote;
ona chsrt be said all MInktnd should iuhax11--
1hs r1oLt 70 worship and the rsoh8 to eoff+
Always the sarne-but yet glinstn9 prism:
In wt Law. statecraft, still uaste-haud;
An .uncrowned hing" whose peoples iovs ~
N. tiiis--l,ptnA1os or H1s LAsDl
His hearts In Rome, bis spirtt u 10 hea.en-
So runs the old song that bis people slug
t.1l Round Tower they builded tn GlxsueTtn-
FIJI Irish headstanA for an Irish king!
n 1fotherland! there il no causs to doubt thee.
Tny marx is left on every shore to-day.
Though grief and wrong may cling hks 1opes soou'
rby MOD motherhood will kesp thee Queen alwzy,
In faith aud patience worktng, AMI beueV1ne
Not power alone can make nobfs State;
Whateer the land, though Ill thingF else cooestTm&
Unless It breed Great Meu. y il not great-
90 on. dear land! aud mids. tho generations
Send out strong Men to CITY the Word aloud
Tny niche II empty still amidst the Nations
DO On In faith, and Con MusT RA1sE TIE CLOUD.
...ssnebu. More" er.a. 4a.: ths M ttls n 2! To
Oaoah Fo1s, who sesknsd go ye.ss E. e. oIxanizod -
hsn. Who diEestod the lava into record e4ied the
Paitsr OF Tara Ol1ah FoA founded schools Of hstoEJ
n.dicine philosophy poetry. and Astrnuoy Thieh Were
nrotacted 81 hs auccassors- kLnbath {l5o o. u and
HuxoaJ {O B. c. also promoted the c14n tnte<eats ot
the ktnEdom In I renaskablo nannar.
4 Country Full OF Foxes.
Lebanon (Kp) Standard
Mr., George ". GabehArt- who lives near Brad
fordsyille has pack OF hounds With which he
has caught eighty-odd red foxes in ten months.
George believes In thinning out the fo1es In
think is very good idea for the foxes are far
more destructive to the younger hocks OF sheep