 | John Ashton - Great Britain - 1903 - 344 pages
...seconded it in a violent speech, in which occurred the following balderdash. "On with your green standard rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt; On our side is Virtue and Erin, On yours is the far-son and guilt." Of course the Motion was enthusiastically carried, and then a very... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1903 - 380 pages
...cannot be said to have done him much credit. Its spirit is well indicated by the motto from Moore : On our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt. It is a choice specimen of a kind of history that is still abundantly written in Ireland — a * history... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - English literature - 1904 - 256 pages
...party is entirely, nobly, and exclusively right, and all others basely, cruelly, and utterly wrong. " On our side is Virtue and Erin ; on theirs is the Saxon and Guilt," so he wrote, and the one-sided, utterly unjust sentiment of these lines and others of a like tendency... | |
 | Charles Welsh - Quotations, Irish - 1908 - 136 pages
...In the chase of golden treasures, Be mine a dream of Erin, and the light of Kathleen's eyes. On one side is Virtue and Erin On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt ! tf Peace and Prosperity to Ireland Pearly are the skies in the country of my fathers, Purple are... | |
 | Wehman Bros - 1909 - 132 pages
...They come to divide— to dishonor. 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. THE FOUR-LEAVED SHAMROCK. I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells, And if I find the... | |
 | M. J. Brown - Ballads - 1912 - 284 pages
...will remain. But onward ! — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt ; On OUT side is Virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt. THE SECOND PERIOD FROM RURIE O'CONNOR, LAST ARD-RI OF IRELAND, TO GERALD, EARL OF KILDARE, LORD DEPUTY... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - Great Britain - 1916 - 304 pages
...dread that the cold-hearted Saxon will tear One chord from that harp or one lock from that hair.11 " On our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt.1' To come to our own day, the Athenaeum, January 13, 1914, in a review of John Mitchell's Jail... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Ireland - 1921 - 762 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. 5 She afterwards entered the Convent at Mellefont and devoted the remainder of a long life to the service... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...•pot-pourri rose rather than a fresh one. The song of O'Ruark with its altogether fatal climax — On our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt — (which carries with it the delightful reflection that it was an Irishman running away with an Irish... | |
 | John Alexander Ferguson - Australia - 1976 - 704 pages
...3685 O'Connell, Daniel (1775-1847). A Memoir on | Ireland, Native and Saxon. By Daniel O'Connell, MP | "On our side is virtue and Erin— On theirs is the Saxon and guilt." Moore. London: | Dolman, 61, New Bond Street. | Sydney: WA Duncan, King Street. - - MDCCCXLIII. 8vo.... | |
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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... 
