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There's famine in the land, its grip is tightening still!
There's trouble, black and bitter, on every side I glance.
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She said, 'God knows they owe me nought,
I tossed them to the foaming sea,
I tossed them to the howling wastes,
Yet still their love comes home to me.'
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton
Emily Lawless
Born:
June 17, 1845
Died:
October 19, 1913
(aged 68)
Bio:
The Hon. Emily Lawless was an Irish novelist and poet from County Kildare.
Known for:
Grania (1891)
Hurrish (1886)
The Story of Ireland (1887)
A Garden Diary
Book of Gilly (1906)
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