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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 227 |
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SIR AUBREY DE VERE (1788-1846)
LIBERTY OF THE PRESS
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OME laws there are too sacred for the hand Of man to approach : recorded in the blood Of patriots, before which, as the Rood Of faith, devotional we take our stand ; Time-hallowed laws ! Magnificently planned When Freedom was the nurse of public good, And Power paternal: laws that have withstood All storms, unshaken bulwarks of the land ! Free will, frank speech, an undissembling mind, , Without which Freedom dies and laws are vain, On such we found our rights, to such we cling; In them shall power his surest safeguard find. Tread them not down in passion or disdain ; Make a man a reptile, he will turn and sting. |
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THE CHILDREN BAND
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LL holy influence dwells within The breast of childhood: instincts fresh from God Inspire it, ere the heart beneath the rod Of grief hath bled, or caught the plague of sin. How mighty was that fervor which could win Its way to infant souls ! and was the sod Of Palestine by infant Croises trod ? |
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