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Show IRISH EYES OF BLUE. The Most Dauntless That Ever Met the Foe on Battlefield. It does not appear in the least remarkable re-markable to me that Irish eyes should possess, as they certainly do, a charm that is theirs exclusively, when one stops to consider the history, temperature tempera-ture and general characteristics of the sturdy sons and daughters of the Emerald Em-erald isle, says a writer "in the Boston Republic. The eye is what the soul makes it, and, like a true indicator, it records the character of its possessor. The Irish eye most eloquently bespeaks the character of Ireland's people. Deep and blue as the great waves of the ocean, tender and sparkling as the lovelight of the stars, brave and fearless fear-less as the heart of the steel-clad warrior, war-rior, peerless eyes of blue! The undying undy-ing patriotism of generations, the continuous con-tinuous struggle for freedom, the faith in their holy religion, and the matchless wit and humor, the bright optimism, which, however dark the . clouds may be, can always see the silver sil-ver lining., all these are beautifully blended in the azure orbs of Erin's children ideal eyes of blue! The most dauntless eye that ever met the foe's on the battlefield, the terrible ter-rible eyes of hate, the sweetest eyes of love, the softest eyes that ever gladdened glad-dened the heart of lover brave, the gentlest that ever bent over the cradle of a little child bright, speaking eyes of Erin, the fairest in all the world! The laughing eyes of France's daughters are charming, indeed. Lu minuous are the midnight orbs of the sunny Italian maidens. Mild and blue are those of the light browed children of the Rhine; soft and sweet the eye of the golden-haired English lassie, and the hazel brown of fair Columbia' child; but for beauty and depth of meaning give to me the true, honest blue eye of the Shamrock land, "Sweet eyes of heaven's own hue." "For in their limpid depth3 I see, Sweet eyes of Irish blue." Are your eyes of Irish blue? If they are, you are rich in the possession of a I priceless gift the gift of Erin. |