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" My boyish ear still clung to hear Of Erin's pride of yore, Ere Norman foot had dared pollute Her independent shore : Of chiefs, long dead, who rose to head Some gallant patriot few, Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land... "
The New Ireland Review - Page 15
1899
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The Spirit of the Nation: Ballads and Songs by the Writers of "The Nation ...

Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Davis - Ballads, English - 1845 - 364 pages
...all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land— To strike one blow for you. T. What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads...for you, Dear land— Were sweet, endured for you. SLIABH CUILINN. THE WEXFORD MASSACRE. 1649. BY MJ BARRY. I. THEY knelt around the Cross divine, The...
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A Summer Visit to Ireland in 1846

Theresa Cornwallis I. Whitby West ("Mrs. F. West, ") - Ireland - 1847 - 330 pages
...Till all my aim on earth became, To strike one blow for you, Dear Land To strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest, Let other...for you, Dear Land — Were sweet, endured for you. See Songs of Ireland, p. 198. L.— Page 144. The profound veneration which the peasantry of Ireland,...
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Davidson's Universal Melodist: Consisting of the Music and Words ..., Volume 1

Songs - 1853 - 456 pages
...strike one blow for you, Dear landTo strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest Lrt other heads divine ; By work or word, with voice or...: If death should come, that martyrdom Were sweet, endur'd for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endur'd for you. SHEPHERDS, I HAVE LOST MY LOVE. Shepherds,...
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The Lyrics of Ireland

Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land — To strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads...come, that martyrdom Were sweet, endured for you, Dear laud — Were sweet, endured for you. No name is given to elaim the authorship of these passionate...
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The spirit of the nation, ballads and songs, with music

Spirit - 1861 - 224 pages
...What path is best your rights to wreit Let other heads divine ; By work or word, with voice or swonl, To follow them be mine. The breast that zeal and hatred...for you, Dear land — Were sweet endured for you. SLIA.B CUILINN SONNET. BY BN SHANNON, TRANSLATOR OF DANTE, ACTHOB OF " TALES OLD AND NEW." Is fair,...
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The Poets and Poetry of Ireland: With Historical and Critical Essays and Notes

Alfred Mason Williams - English poetry - 1881 - 472 pages
...Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land, To strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest, Let other...word, with voice or sword, To follow them be mine. The heart that zeal and hatred steel, No terrors can subdue ; If death should come, that martyrdom Were...
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Poems of Ireland. To which is added 'Lover's Metrical tales'.

Samuel Lover - 1884 - 458 pages
...Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land — To strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads...for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endured for you, No name is given to claim the authorship of these passionate lines. There are many who would not like...
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The Universal Irish Song Book: A Complete Collection of the Songs and ...

Patrick John Kenedy - 1898 - 512 pages
...few, Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear landTo strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads divine, By work or word, with voice or ssvord, To follow them be mine. The breast that zeal and hatred steel, No terrors can subdue ; If death...
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 285

Early English newspapers - 1898 - 634 pages
...manly qualities and virtues. And, as a connection of his family wrote, some fifty years later : — • If death should come, that martyrdom Were sweet endured for you, Dear Land ! Were sweet, endured for you ! NORMAN STUART. CYRANO DE BERGERAC. MEDMOND ROSTAND calls his latest drama a " come'die . heYoi'que,"...
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Poetry of the People: Comprising Poems Illustrative of the History and ...

American ballads and songs - 1903 - 430 pages
...Till all my aim on earth became To strike one blow for you, Dear land — To strike one blow for you. What path is best your rights to wrest Let other heads...for you, Dear land — Were sweet, endured for you. Sliabh Cut/inn CVIII © 48ap of Dublin O bay of Dublin ! my heart you 're troublin', Your beauty haunts...
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