INJURED ERIN ceaseless weeps,
Where her lifeless EMMETT sleeps;
And her DAUGHTERS mourn the brave,
Sent to an untimely grave.
SONG OF THE CHILDREN OF ERIN.
CLOSED the eye that beamed bright
Through oppression’s darkest night;
Cold the heart, that anxiously
Throbb’d to set its country free;
Mould’ring in its native land,
Nerveless lies the daring hand;–
Mute the tongue, whose patriot heat
Shook the awful judgment-seat–
Shade! that to the realms of light
From the scaffold took thy flight,
Bending o’er thy sacred urn,
We, thy grateful sisters, mourn.–
Injured ERIN ceaseless weeps,
Where her lifeless EMMETT sleeps,
And we deeply mourn the brave,
Sent to an untimely grave.
(John MacCreery)
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