. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . m Ye Blakes and ODonnels, whose fathers resignd)Tlie green hills of their youth, among strangers to find That repose which, at home, they had sighd for m vain,Join, join in our hope that the flame, which you light,-J) May be felt yet in Erin, as calm and as bright,And forgive even Albion while blushing she a truant, her sword, in the long-sHghted cause Of the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain! God prosper the cause!—oh, it cannot but thrive,While the pulse of one patriot heart is alive, Its devotion to feel, and it

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. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . m Ye Blakes and ODonnels, whose fathers resignd)Tlie green hills of their youth, among strangers to find That repose which, at home, they had sighd for m vain,Join, join in our hope that the flame, which you light,-J) May be felt yet in Erin, as calm and as bright,And forgive even Albion while blushing she a truant, her sword, in the long-sHghted cause Of the Shamrock of Erin and Olive of Spain! God prosper the cause!—oh, it cannot but thrive,While the pulse of one patriot heart is alive, Its devotion to feel, and its rights to maintain;Then, how sainted by sorrow, its martyrs will die!The finger of Glory shall point where they lie;While, far from the footstep of coward or slave,The young spirit of Freedom shall shelter their grave Beneath Shamrocks of Erin and Olives of Spain

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