TO DR. DRENNAN,
WRITTEN ON THE BLANK LEAF OF A COPY OF THE FIRST PART OF “THE PRESS.”
Accept, sweet Poet of the Emerald Isle,
This friendly tribute from a stranger hand;
From one who prays that Freedom yet may smile
On the green sward that clothes his native land.
Soon may the cheering beams of Reason shine
Through the thick gloom of Superstition’s night;
And Erin’s children feel the warmth divine
From Heaven’s empyreal source of life and light!
Liverpool,
1st August, 1804.
(John MacCreery)
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