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For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
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This country of ours is no sandbank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of Irish mind.
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Come in the evening, or come in the morning;
Come when you're looked for, or come without warning.
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Viva la the New Brigade!
Viva la the Old One, too!
Viva la, the Rose shall fade,
And the shamrock shine for ever new.
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And then I prayed I yet might see
Our fetters rent in twain,
And Ireland, long a province, be
A Nation once again.
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But—hark!—some voice like thunder spake:
The West's awake! the West's awake!
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The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver
As our souls flow in one down eternity's river.
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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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Born:
October 14, 1814
Died:
September 16, 1845
(aged 30)
Bio:
Thomas Osborne Davis was an Irish writer who was the chief organiser of the Young Ireland movement.
Known for:
Literary and historical essays 1846 (1845)
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