The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-09-22


Lashng the rcck-furieal
What do they come for
fires Of youts-y;sA,.full aSODies-
Seas. ia it this you bear
| Nc But the times that come,
. And the thur hear
Sa the sdS sPsss Pss in Ar
| That cyveS usEsTord that drank at our heart
Lap Lap TO TO The the i.Sd FSSf' ,ons sHse braves.
over graves upon hloodtrOdden graves
Come times, God revenge.
Slow. sure. complete ="
| Anne"
II am too unhappy. 1 was RENE emberipg
| how your father told me one day that l mus
nct expect any good result to follow my poor
| Efforts here. because the ground was so full o
dragons teeth sown in the old, nj just, revenge
| ful times, that there was no room for good
| grain 10 grow till all the barvcsts CT evil had
been resped. 1t does brig feeling of de-
spar when one aces that the only hope our
patriots are pm ting before themselves is the
opportunity To begin sowing more dragons
teeth"
yet when oppressed nations rise and list.
themselves the world is glad. 1t is not soH
ing dragons teeth if they s1cceed."
That depends on the spirit which prompts
and carries out the rising. dread the word
revenge for us Irish. Such dark deeds have
been done on our side, too, that have no
faith in good coming to us, till We have rise n
I the heights of repe u ance and forgiveness.'
~ wish Darcy ODounell could come and
talk 10 you Do you know, Anne, he was in
this neighborbood in the spring, and Connor
wanted TO bring him to you but he refused.
partly because he thought acquaintance with
such q rebel as be would be dat ists ful to you.
and partly becanse be has always kept aloof
from his relations on our sde-not caring to
know people who, as he thinks, were hard on
his mother long ago. He accepted Connor
and me to cousinship because we could have
had nothing to do with that last generation
quarrel"
uN,r ad INIT ron saa ;t,s tho aape cnir;t
in everything. We SOW dragons teeth in our
family relationships and reap them to the last
grain. Do yon happen to know tie young
mans address l should like to write aud
make overtures of peace. 1 suspect he is very
poor in friends older than himself"
Il know lie is do write to him, Anne, and
make him come down and stay with you here
He would listen to you, if he would to snyope
ard that would be good for ConnOr. He is u
Dublin now. See, have put his address IN
der his verses on the cover, that you may not
forget it,"
How still the valley i. to day. Ellen
said, after little pause. II suppose it, be-
cause the school-honse and work-rooms are
empty, and 30 many people gone bat the
place is not like itself with no bozzng and
singing, and no red oioaks to be seen in the
melancholy little bare gardens or on the hill
sides"
"Peter has given strict orders that none of
the people who stslt for America to morrow
are to come to the lodge to wish me good bye.
am afraid he has held out deluslve hope
that, il am left in peace to day, l shall be
strong enough tomorrow to go with them as
far as Galway and see them on board. But l
must Dot put myself in the way of another
such scene as that last parting on shipboard.
1 wish some less gloomy person than Peter
Lynch were going with then-some one who
would bring cheerful account back"
'Ar Thornley, 7"
"Ah, that's a good idea if he comes in to.
day will ask bin. He would manage for the
emigrants better than Peter Lynch, and talk
them into good spirits."
Il, would be easy enough for him ; he has
not the least le. what parting mealR to
Good Peoples Hollow exilee. It is 6nly
mount tainecrs who ever have NAL du pays
| don't think anything could make me go the e
bound to cling to it and think should be
very angry with anyone who j ID to draw my
affections awav fIoul.it iast now. 1 should 50
hate m!s7lf if felt lem going"
"Bu you wond be wrong. l am afraid
Con nuor's talk is on wholesome for ycu.'
Il don't sympsrhiz in his hopes. bat feel
bound To stand by him when he is putting
hmselfinto danger for what, rightly or wrong
ly, he believes to be the good of the country.
] should be very jealous of yielding to any in
foeuce that woaid bs likely II draw apart
just now. l should feel it treschery to Con-
norn
"If stronger i. thence than his cane, you
WOO | have to follow it "
bat It shall not come. Tnere are women
in Ireland now who are caring for nothing
but the count y and the men who still hope
for her. l can emulate them
Take care not To fancy antagonisn where
it does not exist. an very much afraid of
that for sou, deaf"
There are other things that am much
more afraid of for myself; but have let you
talk too long; your cheeks are quite flashed,
and you look 80 weary. We will not speak
auotaer word TILL l have finished this petit
coat. taresay 1t will be treasured and
handed down as a sacred relic, this Lass piece
of homespuu G pod People's Hollow haune its
posseesor will ever own"
n alternate long BileQCES and bl2tCheS of
talk the morning in the turret.room wore
swsr. Peter Lynch, with a face of coroen-
tr.t ID gloom, locked 10 now and then for
orders. The breaking up Of the kingdom was
almost as deadly blow to him as 10 his
beloved 70 5 ;ress Mnrdock Malachy ltmped
in, to carry III the bundles of s fis for the
emigrapts as they were made up; and, direct
ed by Ellen, the little housemads came back
wards and forwards from store-closet to- cell
lar Bringing miscellaneous contributions to
the b1rdles which varied in value from shell
boxes and piu cushions of Annes manufacture
Of past winter evenings, and bottles of cor
dial wst,rs, to homespun cloals and blankets.
AuLe portioned ont these treasures with such
a liberal hand, that the house seemed TO be
in danger of being stripped to it's walls. "Tbey
f,,t -, Nl,,uO Oai,n sold