. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . (^it^II the Harp then be silent, when he who first gaveTo our country a name, is withdrawn from all eyes? Shall a Minstrel of Erin stand mute by the graveWhere the first—where the last of her Patriots lies?. No—faint tho the death-song may fall from his lips,Tho his Harp, like his soul, may with shadows be crost Yet, yet shall it sound, mid a nations eclipse, And proclaim to the world what a star hath been lost; What a union of all the affections and powersBy which life is exalted, embellishd, refined, Was embraced in that spir
. Literature, art and song: Moore's melodies and American poems; . (^it^II the Harp then be silent, when he who first gaveTo our country a name, is withdrawn from all eyes? Shall a Minstrel of Erin stand mute by the graveWhere the first—where the last of her Patriots lies?. No—faint tho the death-song may fall from his lips,Tho his Harp, like his soul, may with shadows be crost Yet, yet shall it sound, mid a nations eclipse, And proclaim to the world what a star hath been lost; What a union of all the affections and powersBy which life is exalted, embellishd, refined, Was embraced in that spirit—whose centre was ours,While its mighty circumference circled mankind.
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