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Excerpt from A Memorial Birthday Poem to the Poet Thomas Moore: Dedicated to the National League of America, and Its Kindred Irish Associations, With Other Poems
As long as the remembrance of our boyhood endures, and so long as some of the most popular of Moore's lyrics continue to hold a place in the melody of our land, so will the memory of Moore be cherished by the old who were contemporaneous when he was the idol of song writers; and esteemed by the young to whom has been transmitted his fame as the author of some of the finest airs and sweetest ballads of our English mother tongue.
It is not alone a sense of humanity that prompts the writer to unite the name of Moore with the sad and Oppressed condition of his countrymen in Ireland of to-day, for such in a great measure was their condition in his own time, and which a thousand allusions in his poems fully testify he realized in a painful and despairing sense; butit is the spirit of the writer's anglo-saxon birth, on his father's Side, which carries with it an inheritance of name of which none is more common in the domesday-book of England, and of which Freeman, in his History of the Norman Conquest, says Still there are a few names which have come down to us, names to be cherished wherever the tongue of England is spoken, names which should sound like the call of the trumpet to the ears of every man of English birth and, possessing this name, colonized in Puritan New England for not less than two hundred and forty-six years, joined with that on his mother's side of pure scotch-irish extraction, resident in Pennsylvania one hundred and forty years, and both of which families were active participants in our Revolution of 1776, and the War of l812, -a record of ancestry that gives to him a traditional anti-modern English sentiment, and necessarily a desire to promote, though in an humble way, the welfare of a race struggling for emancipation from a des potic yoke, that impedes individual prosperity and national progress. It is, therefore, that he dedicates to the National League of America, and kindred Irish Associations, this birthday memorial poem to Moore.
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