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Excerpt from Songs of the Rising Nation: And Other Poems
Ah! Young, or middle-aged, or old - what then Love is the same bright ignis-fatuus ever That plays the mischief with the hearts of men, And women too, dark-bair'd or grey. There never Can come a time when that delusive light Shall lose its charm to lure - its power to blight. Old land of mine! Say, shall I sing thy wrongs? Alas! What need? Doth not thy misery Breathe in the murmurs of a thousand songs A ceaseless flood of mournful melody While nobler muses tell the grievous tale, Mine can but weep the woes of Innisfail! Religion - but my pen's not smooth enough It could not treat the subject as it ought. 'tis an old crabbed pen, rusty and rough, And stops, and trips at every pretty thought, And slurs this word, and Sputters that - and so, Religion must not be my subject. No! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
