Show Allr of TIIt e LEfL ruts day Is dear to us This day our race Renews Its youth the whole broad earth around < l This day our lovo oer I cups all sundering spare And homeward bins beyond all hinderIng hinder-Ing bound This day wheror an Irishman Is found And whither can you go and fall to find him Ills faithful spirit haunts the holy ground Tim consecrated sod long left behind him V And even those whoso eyes have never seen The shine and shadow on their fathers nllls Uave neer been gladdened by the living green Hcllected In a thousand rills Today their hearts a tender feeling Ills Upon their cars today a voice Is falling fall-ing A voice that touches them a voice that thrills The voice of Erin to her children calling call-ing 6 The Bcadlvldcd Gael Is one today From north to south from farthest east to west The spreading oceans cannot stop nor ctay The spark that speeds from Irish breast to breast Were brothers all at motherlands behest be-hest Heart cleaves to heart with tenderest devotion And dark dissension passes like a Jest In all the glow of this dear days emotion emo-tion 6 The winds of fate haveblown Us far and wide Of cruel laws weve known the bitter ban But nil In vain oppressions hand has tried To bend us to a proud Imperial plan We are no remnant of a conquered clan night hundred years of tyranny and terror Defiant leave us as when first began Their long long reign of Ignorance and error I A Weve known defeat wave known the anguish keen Of those who seo their countrys glory fled The famine days the living specters lean The little children hungering for bread And yet the Irish nation Is not dead In spite of sword and suffering and sorrow When all seems lost again she lifts her < lAnd l-And turns expectant toward some bright tomorrow tomorlOWA On Englands realm the day Is never done She may well boast her farflung battlo llnc i Icr morning drumbeat following the sun I She rules alike tho palmtree and the pine Out Erin dear a wider sway Is thine A truer state of empire thou main tamest Thy right to homage Is a right divine Because dear land by love alone thou relgnest A The empire won by steel and Held by force Must sometime fall must sometime fall to naught The onward moving years resistless course Full many a dynasty to dust has brought Delshazzars kingdom cunningly was wrought And yet thero came a day of dire disaster dis-aster There came a message that with mean leg fraught Foretold the triumph of another master I rt3A Thus power has passed and thus will pass again I God lives and reigns whatoer tho fool may say God Is not mocked Ho keeps his tryst with men Ho bides his time until the appointed day And then he moves And then he sweeps away The fabrics fondly made to last forever for-ever And then n ruin where the lizards play Is all that marks tho place of proud endeavor en-deavor A ytyJ This this Is Erins comfort In her grief And this her consolation In her care duo holds unshaken still her old belief That Gods high judgments are not false but fair hen other people perish In despair Or bow the knee before unholy altars iialrvcr i cross poor Irelands shoulders bear Her Chilstlan courage never faints nor falters A And ao this days a day of faith and hope Whaler misfortunes through the year may fall Today In darkness wo refuse to grope Today our lingers Illng aside tho pall Today we answer to the clarion call Of those nt hometrue hearted sons that love her Today we pledge our fealty to nil Who strive to place her own free flax above her |