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honour, nor was she robbed of her clothes or jewels." In reference to " Oh, Blame not the Bard" (air, "Kitty Tyrrel"), Moore says, " W e may suppose this apology to have been uttered by one of those wandering bards whom Spenser so severely, and perhaps truly, describes in his 1 State of Ireland/ and whose poems, he tells us, ' were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device which gave good grace and comeliness unto them.5" But, generally speak-ing, was not Spenser not only unjust but basely ungrateful to the people he lived amongst so long ? This tribute from him is rather excep-tional.
Moore wrote " She is Far from the Land" to a very curious old tune, to commemorate the feelings of Sarah Curran, daughter of the celebrated Irish barrister of that name, and of her lover Robert Emmet It is of them that Washington Irving said in his " Sketch Book:" " Every one mu3t recollect the tragical story of young Emmet, the Irish patriot; it was too touching to be soon forgotten. During the troubles in Ireland he was tried, condemned, and executed on a charge of high treason. His fate made a deep impression on public sympathy. He was so young, so intelligent, so generous, so brave, so everything that we are apt to like in a
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