But daylight's stealing on ; The last that o'er us shone Saw our children around us play; The next-ah! where shall we And those rosy urchins be? But no matter-grasp thy sword and away, boy, away; No matter-grasp thy sword and away! Let those, who brook the chain. Of Saxon or of Dane, Ignobly by their firesides stay; One sigh to home be given, One heartfelt prayer to heaven, Then, for Erin and her cause, boy, hurra hurra! hurra! Then, for Erin and her cause, hurra! WE MAY ROAM THROUGH THIS WORLD. WE may roam through this world, like a child at a feast, But if hearts that feel, and eyes that smile, We never need leave our own green isle, For sensitive hearts, and for sun-bright eyes. Then remember, wherever your goblet is crown'd, Thro' this world, whether eastward or westward you roam When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, In England, the garden of Beauty is kept By a dragon of prudery placed within call; That the garden's but carelessly watch'd after all. Which warns the touch, while winning the sense, Then remember, wherever your goblet is crown'd, Thro' this world, whether eastward or westward you real When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, In France, when the heart of a woman sets sail, But just pilots her off, and then bids her good-bye. Ever smiling beside his faithful oar, Through billows of woe, and beams of joy, The same as he look'd when he left the shore. Thro' this world, whether eastward or westward you roam OH, YE DEAD! Он, ye Dead! oh, ye Dead! whom we know by the light you g From your cold gleaming eyes, though you move like men who Why leave you thus your graves, In far off fields and waves, Where the worm and the sea-bird only know your bed, Those eyes that wept your fall, And the hearts that wail'd you, like your own, lie dead? It is true, it is true, we are shadows cold and wan; So sweet the living breath Of the fields and the flow'rs in our youth we wander'd o'er To freeze 'mid Hecla's snow, We would taste it awhile, and think we live once more! The young May moon is beaming, love, Through Morna's grove, When the drowsy world is dreaming, love! To lengthen our days, Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear! Now all the world is sleeping, love, But the Sage, his star-watch keeping, love, More glorious far, Is the eye from that casement peeping, love. The Sage's glass we'll shun, my dear, Or, in watching the flight Of bodies of light, He might happen to take thee for one, my dear. FORGET NOT THE FIELD. FORGET not the field where they perish'd, All gone and the bright hope we cherish'd Oh! could we from death but recover Those hearts as they bounded before, In the face of high heav'n to fight over That combat for freedom once more; Could the chain for an instant be riven But 'tis past-and, tho' blazon'd in story Accurst is the march of that glory Which treads o'er the hearts of the free. Far dearer the grave or the prison, Than the trophies of all, who have risen THEE, THEE, ONLY THEE. THE dawning of morn, the daylight's sinking, When friends are met, and goblets crown'd, Whatever in fame's high path could waken For thee, thee, only thee. Like shores, by which some headlong bark I have not a joy but of thy bringing, Like spells, that nought on earth can break, REMEMBER THEE. REMEMBER thee? yes, while there's life in this heart, |