The Irish standard., 1896-09-05
tongues of Europe and the East in Moore'si

Through the dishonesty OF his Bermuda
deputy, Moore, Notwithstanding his liter
ary success, became indebted to the amount
of $4,000. To canoe! this debt became his
ambition, and travelling through France
and Italy he wrote "The Fudge Family in
Paris Loves of the Angels. and
Rhymes on the Road In his latter years
he showed signs of falling powers and died
at Superior Cottage, 1852, at the mature
age Of 70. He was buried at DEVICES, out
side OF London
There's a tomb that rises
Ger they sward Devices,
Where Moore lies sleeping
From his land afar,
And white stone flashes :
Ger Goldsmithis ashes,
In the quiet c'o:sters
BY Temple Bar"
Many Irlshmen condemn Moore for his
attachment to aristocfasic society in Eng
land, and also for being, as they consider,
only half hearted III his country's cause.
Now, the fact is Moore Gike the Roman
poet Horace, whom in many points he re-
sembled), was a Sybar:te by nature, and
was through his refined tastes and, love. of
luxury .rresistibly attracted by the charms
of hign society | know he loved his coun-
try and ne showed that love in all his writ
ings. His melodies Remember Thee, y
"Erln, O, Erin" LET Erin Remember"
and others too numerous to mention. prove
the genuneness of his patriotism beyond
the possibility of dispute"
Beautifully, too, has Moore i1n1nortalized
the heroes who fell when the cause Of Ire
land went down in bloody eclipse on the
disastrous battle f1e,d Of Angh-iIa. For
get not the field where they perisned, and
Might closed Around the Conquerer's
Way"
80. Blame Not the Bard,' is beautiful
apology for his e!f-indulgence and epicu-
rean tendencies while his poems upon
Emmett and s'She IS far from the land where
her young hero Sleeps" upon Sarah Cur
rem poor Emnet's lady love, are worthy
OF the fame Of that martyred patriot and of
the gentle and unfortunate lady of his
heart.
TO properly appreciate the services
which the genius of Moore have rendered
to Ireland we must consider the following
points: England, the mortal enemy of
Erin, held the ear of the world into which
she continued to pour the most malicious
and v:ndictive misrepresentation of her
hapless victim. On her side Ireland, eX-
cept through her orators was unheard, and
during her long agony of the penal times
she had no poetic voice that reached out
into the world to denounce the infamous
tyranny and persecution under which she
lay bound and bleeding. But the clear,
slvery voice OF Moore penetrated to the
farthest limits of civilization, .proclaiming
to the listening world the truth, virtue,
honor and fortitude Of hapless Erin, and
the cruelty, perfidy and unutterable bar
barity Of her relentless oppressor.
''The stranger shall hear thy lament on his
plains,
The sigh of thy harp shall be sent DER the
deep, $751;
Till thy masters themselves as they rivet
thy chains,
Shall pause at the song OF their captive and
weep" .. -
Moore's position among the poets Of SEN
tlment of all countries and ages is secure.
Moore possessed in an eminent degree
the mastery Of lyric meters and the glowing
imagery of Pinder ('"The Theban eagle')
the perfect Judgment and felicitpus express
SION Of Horace, the exquisite finish OF
Heine, and the tenderness and .pathos of
Burns and Beranger. In Shelley's 'Adon-
isl he is called "Irene's' eweetest lyric Of
her sadde,st wrong, and Swinburne alludes
to the melancholy muse of Moore when he
calls Ireland "the fair green land where
sorrow sweetest sings" Re-.
AS a lyric poet he ranks with Pindar,
Horace, Heine, and Beranger. Among his
contemporaries the divine Shelley alone
surpassed him in verse melody.
Light may the earth lie on him in his
Devices, grave. . Il
The saddest, weirdest and most woe
BECOME, yet withal the most picturesque
figure in Irish Letters" is that of the
mystic poet, James Clarence Mangan.
J. c. Mangan was born in Dublin in
1893 His father becoming bankrupt,
James was in his 18th year obliged to
earn a livelihood. He drudged as a
scrivener for seven long years from S in
the morning until II at night, and after
wards became solicitors clerk for three
years. His earnings were hardly ade-
ouate to support himself and his parents.
Through the influence Of some friends
he obtained an engagement int the Ii
brary of Trinity College and availing
himself OF the opportunities there offered
plVlC1SuCy AAduy ld1SudSco.
In his 9th year he published d metri-
cal translation from the Irish and Ger
man which secured him the friendship
of some distinguished men among whom
were De Petre and Eugene O.. Curry the
great Gaelic scholars. He also contributed
to the Nation, then at the zenith. of its
fame, The United 1rishman,' The Dublin
University, etc. He contributed /; besides
translatioas many original poems, remark
able for their melodious versification,
chaste expression and exquisite patfos.
While quill-driving in an attorneys office
he became infatuated with the fair Frances,
who appears to have encouraged the young
poet and then Tilted him. ,.,
This disappointment on being of his
sensibility and the fine impulses together
with his lifelong struggle with poverty and
misery, drove him to seek solaee in the
wine cup, which gradually undermined his
constitution. There were two Mangans,' =
says Mitchell, zone known to the muses.,
the other to the police; one soaring through
the empyrean, the other groyelling in the
nltad Of Bride street." He sank under the
weight Of disease, and was admitted to the
Meath Hospital; where he died. June Is,
t1S49. @.
i;3 Besides having an imagination gorgeous
with an Eastern luxuriance, Mangan was
q master Of technique and possessed q
facile and perfect control Of the netfe.
II. Hk power ,of depicting scene by tie
deh appli Of some descriptive word