 | Thomas Moore, Daniel Maclise - Literary Collections - 2000 - 290 pages
...divide, to dishonour, And tyrauts they long will remain. But onward !— the green banner rearing, :Goe flesh every sword to the hilt; On our side is Virtue and Erin, a ikar,s is thE- Saxon and Guilt. ,ve son i rememher Ellen, onr hamlet's pride," How meekly she hleseedher... | |
 | Thomas E. Hachey, Lawrence John McCaffrey - History - 1989 - 176 pages
...strong to be typical Moore, yet it fits the political mood Duffy sought to inspire in his anthology: Already the curse is upon her, And strangers her valleys...VIRTUE and ERIN! On theirs is the SAXON and GUILT.** Those last two lines were used by Daniel O'Connell as the epigraph to his history of Ireland, A Memoir... | |
 | Stephen Regan - Literary Collections - 2004 - 628 pages
...were merely a western segment of Britain). Moore's song: 'The Song of O'Ruark, Prince of Breffni': 'On our side is Virtue and Erin! | On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt.' the Nation: the weekly cultural and political journal founded by Thomas Davis with John Blake Dillon... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 737 pages
...come to divide — to dishonour, And tyrants they long will remain. But onward 1 — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt ; On our side is Virtue and Erin, On thews is the Saxon and Guilt 5 She afterwards entered the Convent at Mellef ont and devoted the remainder... | |
 | Julia M. Wright - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 19 pages
...come to divide — to dishonour, And tyrants they long will remain. But onward! — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt; On our...VIRTUE and ERIN, On theirs is the SAXON and GUILT. (IM, 107—8) The slippage between the body of the false wife and that of the true nation is striking,... | |
 | Authors, English - 1901 - 686 pages
..." as a devil incarnate. Such vapid lines as these of a former generation are not in his manner : " On, our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt." From his " We're not the same," in which he contrasts the ideals of the two nationalities, English... | |
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And through ages of bondage and slaughter, Our country shall bleed for thy shame. Already the curse is upon her, And strangers her valleys profane ; They come to divide — to dishonour, And tyrants they long will remain. But onward ! — the green banner... 
