 | American poetry - 1912 - 624 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... | |
 | M. J. Brown - Ballads - 1912 - 284 pages
...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...withstand. Alas that Might can vanquish Right — They felt and pass'd away ; But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here to-day. Then here's their memory... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 912 pages
...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 living blazs That nothing shall withstand. Alis 1 that Might can vanquish Right—... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...that from their clay Full many a race may start Of true men, like you, men, To act as brave a part. F/ Then here's their memory — may it be For us a guiding light, To cheer our strife for liberty, And... | |
 | Padraic Colum - Authors, Irish - 1922 - 388 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 to their memory — may it be For us a guiding light, To hear our strife for liberty, And... | |
 | Lennox Robinson - English poetry - 1925 - 368 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 teach... | |
 | Lennox Robinson - English poetry - 1925 - 370 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 teach... | |
 | 1925 - 262 pages
...days To right their native land; They kindled her a living blaze That nothing shall withstand. Also! that Might can vanquish Right, They fell and passed...But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here today. — Anon, etc. A GENEALOGICAL PROBLEM "Mony aunts, mony emes, mony kin, but few friends." — Scotch... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Zack R. Bowen - Literary Criticism - 1974 - 394 pages
...slighdy mixed up. He begins by quoting a line from stanza four of "The Memory of the Dead": Ulysses 157 They rose in dark and evil days To right their native...But true men, like you, men, Are plenty here today. It is appropriate that Kernan be the first to allude to that patriotic drinking ballad which is to... | |
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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... 
