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Show harp always the piude 1 of the emerald isle j Ixing before hlatory had troiblen a I pnihaay ai nma tfie Insecnro grouril of legend and trailltlon tlie Irian harp waa alike the relbx and Intorpreter of populnr fivllpg. IVt haim it mny bo h!i! to have come op!l!nrly Into Ihe gi'iiernl vl-'w hen Juinea I. pliiceil It In tin- third 1 carter of the royal arm of Crctit llrltnln. Hut a century before thla Henry VIII. had linprcaaed a harp on the Irish coin-nuc; coin-nuc; a aeeinlrgly pn-nile fact which yet cnnmtt be divorced from tne Ktrong clenicnt of romnncc which per-mcnlea per-mcnlea every pinve of the aiibjecl. For It aeema Hint a aon 1 f Kit 1: Itrlan Horn prexi nleil hla fntber'a burp t'l 1'npe John XVIII. In lno:i; and that It waa ItcHnured In Koine 111 til l.co X mil It to Henry V 1 1 1 . f.mt ycara afterward. after-ward. Ho In turn fate II to the Plat l'nrl of t'lnnili nnlo; nnd nfter pajia-ing pajia-ing Into the poMefslin of r.cvcnil Mull fHlnllli' llrliin' alerted liHrp eveiitunlly fiiuiul a home lu the college col-lege rntiHcutn in liubiin. Hut aitpjM a-!ng a-!ng Ibla vei ernlile In.-l riimriit to be nt ' -nut 1 yenra old. t ml la a mere '''!" In the hlnory of the harp and .apeclnlly of the lrlnh linrp. We mny accept the Tbebinn harp aa a pretty ancient reiircmi iittlve of Ita Rrent family: tint "un the older lrl.h lllalorltira go t- . K to the deliiKe atid it la only lu the very mlrl'mid of ai'thiulty tint se loae touch wlih their iHillor.ltl aymlHil. And even there we im-ciii to fetch Ihe echo of Ita atralna. Put llioucli lionKtlng nf ch a re mole pan. II"' Irlah harp la almplt an ailiiP'itHoti of nn Inatrument com-nmn com-nmn t'l ci ntrnl ami northern Kuropc. We fin 'I In the bnnils of he (ler-man (ler-man atd Ci-liie bnitla. nnd of the Si nnd lint inn ak.il.la: and every race I hna bin able to iiiiiurta lihin It Rotiietuli'K nf lu own 1 idler gunlm,. The vltlln la linllnti it, Ita birth, ami It la anlil lo be nulum'i I liy an Italian eotil. And In like mnnnci Mich of the oil Irish utiiFic na lina come down to tn caai'litllilty conflata of atrnlnaof tlie hnrp. Thla, however, la not aigprl-ltg. tor we art; 'old that "long Jicfere tlie lyre wua known lr Home or lliine the (lite. 'f Ir.'lnnd had nttnil H 11 hhth il'i-u-e of perfce-linn perfce-linn lil ill" form .mil iiii.r.rtm-tn.rit ct I the IliVl'- X. I to be 1 np llile of aweep- I leg It In a 111111 erly mm. tier wua . ilien'i a ilircnti" even to royally." j Hii. I' weter. n not at.l 1y 1111 Irish j icellt i l.i.t ti nt of nl.m r.t . very piti-I piti-I pie nil"i k v. hum tin- Iintp tlourli-heil. J in iii'tl'i'tnl tinier it wntt reenrded ai the kit a of mtiHlrnl Liatrument' "iiell licniiHe no other provldi 1 auch In cfTcctlve accoinpanltrieiit for I the vclce. The iintloi.al feeling aroua-cil aroua-cil by 't ant nowhere expreaaed more ! atronglr thnn In Irelnrd, and tho I Hon. I "f Ineiiila. linillllolia aMl an-j an-j ci"iit ' aiipi-ralltlonn tvnlch II, that country aeetn cfaeittlnlly to cling to II art 1" I" --iiil.tr hut tcry naiurnl ' herlllie The hnrp la the eas-etUl prliluof the gieen lale. |
