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Show Will Honor Memory. While Emmet's efforts in the cause of Irish nationality have endeared him to the Irish heart for all time, his love for Sarah Curran. the beautiful daughter of Councillor Curran, ha3 served to further fur-ther hallow his memory. Indeed, many have considered that he sacrificed his life almost as much for love as for his country, for it was during his attempt to see Miss Curran once more before fleeing the country after the 'follapse of his ill-starred revolutionary attempt that he was captured, after which his trial and execution came swiftly. What made the affair still more tragic trag-ic was that after his death the girl pined by degrees, dying, it was finally said, of a broken heart. Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, has described the episode in his pathetic poem. "She Is Far From the Land." It runs thus: She Is Far From the Land. She is far from the land where her young hero Sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps. For her heart in his grave is lying. She sings the wild songs of her dear native na-tive plains. Every note which he loved awaking Ah! little do they think who delight in " her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking. He lived for his love; for his country he died They were all that to life had entwined en-twined him. Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him. Oh! make her a grave where the sunbeams sun-beams rest. When they promise a glorious morrow. mor-row. They will shine on her tomb like a smile frqm the west. From her own loved land of sorrow. |