 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1898 - 872 pages
...When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame ? They rose in dark and evil day, To right their native land ; They kindled here a living...Might can vanquish Right — They fell and passed away ; Bat true men, like you men, Are plenty here to-day. Through good and ill be Ireland's still, Though... | |
 | Spirit - 1861 - 224 pages
...will pray that from their clay Full many a lace may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as bravo a part. v. They rose in dark and evil days To right...nothing shall withstand. Alas ! that Might can vanquish Eight— They fell and passed away ; But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here to-day. vI. Then... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - Great Britain - 1865 - 528 pages
...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...blaze That nothing shall withstand. Alas ! that Might cau vanquish Right— They fell and passed away ; But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here to-day.... | |
 | Hugh Bryan - Ireland - 1866 - 496 pages
...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...But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here to-day. " Then here's their memory — may it be For us a guiding light, To cheer our strife for liberty, And... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil, Thomas MacNevin - Great Britain - 1868 - 522 pages
...that from their clay Pull many a race may start Of true men, like yon, men, To act as brave a part. " They rose in dark and evil days To right their native...nothing shall withstand. Alas ! that Might can vanquish Rigbt—* Tliey fell and passed away ; But true men, like yon, men, Are plenty here to-day. <«вeкС... | |
 | Maryland - 1871 - 338 pages
...OF HONOR NAMES OF THE ENLISTED MEN OF THE REGIMENT KILLED IN ' ACTION, OR DIED OF WOUNDS OR DISEASE. "They rose in dark and evil days To right their native...here a living blaze That nothing shall withstand. " Then here's their memory—may it be For us a guiding light To cheer our strife for liberty, And... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1877 - 308 pages
...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...But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here to-day. Then here 's their memory — may it be For us a guiding light, To cheer our strife for liberty, And... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men. To act as brave a part. SONNETS. 891 They rose in dark and evil days To right their native...a living blaze That nothing shall withstand. Alas I that might con vanquish right — They fell and passed away ; But true men, like you, men, Art plenty... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...may start Of true men — like you, men, — to act aa brave a part. They rose in d.irk and evil dnys to right, their native land ; They kindled here a living blaze that nothing shall withsUnd: Alas ! that Might can vanquish Bight ! they fell and passed away ; But true men — like... | |
 | Michigan. Adjutant-General's Department - Michigan - 1880 - 1062 pages
...indeed, if he is not convinced that the miseries depicted of this prison pen are no exaggerations." " They rose in dark and evil days To right their native...here a living blaze That nothing shall withstand. " Then here's their memory— may it be For us a guiding light, To cheer our strife for liberty, And... | |
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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. They... 
