The Fighting Race and Other Poems and Ballads (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Fighting Race and Other Poems and Ballads If one of tender heart, In turning o'er these leaflets of long years. - Some born in laughter, some all blurred with tears, And wrought in climes and places far apart, - Shall haply find one haunting line Touched e'er so little with the light divine, Or thrilling with a joy intense, Therein I'll find my recompense. If aught herein has cheered a single soul, Or fired one breast to noble deeds, Or helped mankind an inch toward reason's goal, Or in a sterile bosom sown love's seeds, Or placed man's angel at his right on guard, - Therein I'll find reward. And so, to all I love, My harp, my song I dedicate - The near ones who my trust and crust have shared, The brave with whom I've marched and fared, The land the star-flag waves above That gave me welcome at her wide sea-gate, And Ireland, mother-land forever dear - Yea, dearer for the darkness of her fate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.