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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.

Emily Lawless

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.'

Emily Lawless

Emily Lawless

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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