Show I IRELANDS IRELAND'S HOPE HOPE J The prestige of ot our Gaelic race Our poets' poets and our heroes heroes' fame tame Oppression never could rase erase name flame Nor dim the tIme light of or freedoms freedom's Through centuries of or cruel wrong WrO CUb BUD never were Though crushed we dued Our love of ot liberty eer strong rOag With h hope pe and arid faith we WO were imbued Imbue The Time grandeur of ot the b bygone gone years She sheds Its Hs glamour on our path And made us UIS s smile lle amidst our tears Exult des despite our foemen's wrath Disunion fostered by b our foes toes Left Len us beneath the English sway away United all our nations nation's woes Had never traced In blood our way But nut now a brighter day has dawned da Upon the land hand we love so well No more shall Erins Erin's rights be pawned By sectaries with purpose tell fell The ancient language of oC our race Shall be again the time nations nation's tongue tad nd peace and comfort will erase The rime which nr hearts hay have wrung hen Then rival creeds' creeds and factions actions fight tight No longer shall embroil our land md nd Irelands Ireland's children for tor her rights In harmony will take their stand In Taras Tara's ruined silent silent hall ball Where Irish monarchs once held state Music and md gladness will wilt recall The times when we were famed tamed and great Then when our night of oC grief and shams sham Is ended and were we're glad and free Cree Well We'll build a fane Cane to Emmets Emmet's name Who died for Cor Irish Liberty NEIL MACDONALD Copyright 1920 Western Newspaper r |