 The dust of some is Irish earth, Among their own they rest, And the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part.  Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials, 1844by Daniel O'Connell, Henry Shaw - 1844 - 678 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Butler Yeats - English poetry - 1911 - 354 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast ; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land ; They kindled here a living blaze That... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 624 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land; They kindled here a living blaze That nothing... | |
 | M. J. Brown - Ballads - 1912 - 284 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast ; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men To act aa brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land ; They kindled here a living... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 908 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast ; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act a* brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land ; Th 'V kindled here a... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast; And we will pray that from their t They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land ; They kindled here a living blaze That... | |
 | Padraic Colum - Authors, Irish - 1922 - 388 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land ; They kindled here a living blaze That... | |
 | Lennox Robinson - English poetry - 1925 - 368 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast ; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land ; They kindled here a living blaze That... | |
 | Lennox Robinson - English poetry - 1925 - 370 pages
...the same land that gave them birth Has caught them to her breast; And we will pray that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part. They rose in dark and evil days To right their native land; They kindled here a living blaze That nothing... | |
 | Kentucky - 1903 - 120 pages
...And the same land that gave them birth. Has caught them to her breast. And we pray that from their clay, Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men. To act as brave a part." LF JOHNSON. 66 67 The Strother Family. Some claim that the family was of Scotch origin, and that it... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...begins, "Who fears to speak of Ninety- Eight?/ Who blushes at the name?" Stanza five of the poem begins, "They rose in dark and evil days/ To right their native land." See Hoagland, pp. 505-6, and cf. entry 257.17. 241.16/237.38 AT THE SIEGE OF ROSS DID MY FATHER FALL... | |
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