mid the wild commotion, An Orangeman alone. ' My hair,' he said, ' is hoary, And feeble is my hand, And I could tell a story Would shame your cruel band. Full twenty years and over Have changed my heart and brow, And I am grown a lover Of peace and concord... Tales of My Neighborhood - Page 152by Gerald Griffin - 1836Full view - About this book
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| 1855 - 1416 pages
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| 1872 - 514 pages
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| George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 pages
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| David Charles Bell - 1879 - 556 pages
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| Gems - 1884 - 408 pages
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| Gerald Griffin - 1885 - 518 pages
...years and over Have changed my heart and brow, And I am grown a lover Of peace and concord now zrv * It was not thus I greeted Your brother of the Green...the pledge I gave him, Though he had kill'd my son." zV. That aged peasant heard him, And knew him as he stood, Remembrance kindly stirr'd him, And tender... | |
| Charles MacCarthy Collins - 1885 - 350 pages
...changed my heart and brow, And I am grown a lover Of peace and concord now. * Pronounced Gran-u-wale. ' It was not thus I greeted Your brother of the Green...rushing on ; I kept the pledge I gave him, Though he had killed my son.' That aged peasant heard him, And knew him as he stood, Remembrance kindly stirr'd him,... | |
| Charles MacCarthy Collins - 1885 - 352 pages
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