, 1880-01-03
KATE Mll0NEY.

In IL winter, when the ,nGwdrift stood asaias;
the door,
Ka:e Naloney, wife Of Patrick. lsy nigh dying
on the floor
Lay on rag and tattered garments, moaning
out with feeble breath,
" hnaie beside me, Pat, nv daTliEI P-ay the
Lord 70 give me death.
Patrick krelt him down beside her. took her
thin anu wasted hand
SAVING something 70 her softly that she scarce
could understand.
Let ne save ye, . my honey, Only Sp2ke
single word,
And i tell the golden >ccre: viIv.e i wanted
u * heard.
SLUTe it cuts NY leart n s,e - lyiu' diyin'
day by day,
When its food and warmth ye're wanting ;usl
:, dhrive yer pains array.
There's hundred golden g1,;aeas a: lAy l.er-
- f V will
o. y know that Micky R=-ans IN the Lut
upon the hill -
Ratc NaIcney grinpei her husband, then ,.4r
looked him through and through:
" Pat Msloaey, am L dhraming- Did hear
them words . YOU,
Have lived AZ honest woman. loTin' ireland.
tod and thee,
That LOW upou my deathbs,i yc ,hoaid -laise
them words 10 me.
= Come ye here, We tremLlin' traitor: stand
beside me nOw. and swear
b yer ,o,d and Yer hereafther, while be iive-
ye will not dare
Whisper cen i single letter o brave Mickey
Ressn's name.
Can't | d;e . cold and hunger: Would ve
haze me d;r Of shame:
- a. II.
them show their filthy gold:
What the poor boy done to hurt EN- q: hillei
q rascal rich and old
Shot AZ English thief who robbed Us. -riatin.
Irish peasants down:
!,Ai-!r' rintS q pay HI w.,E:.ls And h!> la-h-
Gys Up II town.
'- W are beasts, We lri,a peasants, wacm thy-y
SaXou tyrants spun;
II &c hunt beast too CLOSELY, AID ye wound
him won't lie turn.
Wasn't Regan's sister ri.inei Ly the hi:,ck,r.5r,t
living dead,
Who vas paid his gint last Monday, not ia ii
yer, but in lead"
Pax Nlaloney stood and listened, then he kEeit
and kissed his wife
e XII ne, daTlint, and forgive uie, sure l
thought - save Yer life;
tl-fi l. l4ttl'i 70 Nf w III .e4
within my reach.
II { lonely when ye're gone dear here
whilnper stopped hi~ speech,
Late tust night, when Kat Wa doing, Pat
crept cautiously away
From his cabin 10 the hovel where tie hunted
Resaa lay;
II. Was there lie heari him breathing; sons
thin. whispered t. him, Go,
60 and claim the hundred saineas, Kate wi.l
I5ger need 10 know.
H. could plan Son.e little story when he brought
hrl fuJi to rat,
Il would say the priest had met HIN. aai had
sent her wine and meat.
" ole passed their l1Gely cabin Kate wu,i.i
lie and fancy still:
llirls rad slipped away IN secret :T"IA IL hJ.:
upon the hill.
kate Malcney woke ana Ini>>.i hiE4 guessed
his eTTanl there and then;
Raised her feeble voice and cursed him with
the curse Of God and men;
I'gpM her rags she slowly staggered, tpok her
husbands loaded gun,
Crying, God, pray Thee, help Int, rrr tn
traitor, deed Is done =
Al her limbs were weak with fr,rr, - size
CT.tWled across the rO"r:
But he writhei and struggled bravely till She
reached the cabin-dDor,
Thence she scanned the open country, for the
moon Was III its prime,
AMI she saw her husband running, and She
thought " There yet is time.
Il had come from Regan's hiding, ,ast the
door. and ROW h. went
Pv the pathway down the mountain. "a i,iS
evil errs,r.i lent
Once he called lin. hut he ,tuppej nut,
neither gaze h- glance behind,
For her voice was weak and feeble, aud l.
melted or the wind.
Then sudden strength caI-e u Ler, yIj sEg
rose and followed fdst,
Though her naked limbs we've frozen hv tie
litter winter blast
Sir hai reached him very nearly wAen her
newborn spirit iied.
God has wii!ei it cried the yvuI.an, then
she sho. the traitor dead.
Fro.a her bloodless lips, half frozen, rU>g .
whisper To the sky,
.. have saved his soal frUIl treason here, o
Heaven, let NE die.
Nov 10 babe unborn shall curse him, AoT ~,
country l0athe his name:
] have saved yr, q Iuv husband, iron. a aee!
q. deathle>s Shame.
y ~, has yet guessed their story; Mickey
Regain got away,
Aad acro,, the kind Atl1gtic I've ~ honest
man to-day:
While on Galway It'll the peasants show tie
lonely l,.Uuntair-side
WL1.c an iri-hman wa- murdered aEd ii
Iyi,hwoman died.