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reluctance, and overcome by the entreaties of the fascinating Mrs. Rowe, I appeared and sang the song to a crowded audience, with the most enthusiastic applause. On returning to London I entered the establishment of Messrs.'D'Al-maine, music publishers, as precentor, and 'Kathleen Mavourneen' and other songs— ' Dermot Astore,' ' Their Marriage,' ' Death of Dermot'—were published by that firm. These songs have been sung and appropriated by all the leading cantatrices, from Caradori, Hobbs, Hawes, Hayes, Stephens (the Countess of Es-sex), Malibran, Titiens, and Adelina Patti. The series of songs has been published by thirty different music stores in America, each one making heaps of money. But not one of these brain-stealers has had sufficient principle to bestow a single dime on the composer !" It is fitting that the words of " Kathleen Mavour-neen" should appear here:
" Kathleen Mavourneen ! the gray dawn is breaking, The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill, The lark from her light -wing the bright dew is shaking—
Kathleen Mavourneen ! -what, slumbering still ? Oh 1 hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever ?
Oh ! hast thou forgotten how soon we must part ? It may be for years and it may be for ever,
Oh ! why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart ?
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