 Our country shall bleed for thy shame. Already the curse is upon her, And strangers her valleys profane ; They come to divide — to dishonour, And tyrants they long will remain. But onward ! — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the...  The Quarterly Review - Page 430edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Zeno - 1889 - 200 pages
...they long will remain. But onward ! — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt; On our side is Virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt. The following account of the passage of the "Union" does more credit to the diplomacy than integrity... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1890 - 492 pages
...musty—a pot-pourri rose rather than a fresh one. The song of O'Ruark with its altogether fatal climax— On our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt— (which carries with it the delightful reflection that it was an Irishman running away with an Irishwoman... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1890 - 504 pages
...a pot-pourri rose rather than a fresh one. The song of O'Ruark with its altogether fatal climax — On our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt — (which carries with it the delightful reflection that it was an Irishman running away with an Irishwoman... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - 1893 - 518 pages
...they long will remain. " But onward ! — the green banner rearing, Go flesh every sword to the hilt : On our side is Virtue and Erin ; On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt." Yes, Gentlemen, the author of the "Adventures of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion," and of... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1894 - 248 pages
...historical animosity : — " But onward ! the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt ; On our side is Virtue and Erin ; On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt." And again : — " Thus freedom now so seldom wakes ; The only throb she gives Is when some heart indignant... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 838 pages
...they long will remain. But onward ! — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt ; On our side is Virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt. OH 1 HAD WE SOME BRIGHT LITTLE ISLE OF OUR OWN. OH! had we some bright little isle of our own, In a... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1899 - 442 pages
...scrap of Moore floating vaguely in his memory, but he thus gave it out, ' As Lord Byron has said, " On our side is virtue and Erin, on theirs is the Saxon and guilt." ' I once told him that I was about to realise one of the great dreams of my life by spending some time... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1879 - 252 pages
...they long will remain. But onward ! — the green banner rearing, Go, flesh every sword to the hilt ; On our side is Virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt. r OH! HAD WE SOME BRIGHT LITTLE ISLE OF OUR OWN. OH ! had we some bright little isle of our own, In... | |
 | 1901 - 176 pages
...tyrants they long wil remain. But onward! the green banner rearing, Go, flash every sword to the hilt; On our side is virtue and Erin, On theirs is the Saxon and guilt. THE FOUR-LEAVED SHAMROCK. I'LL seek a four-leaved shamrock In all the fairy dells, And if I find the... | |
 | Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy - 1902 - 712 pages
...whose nominal patriots, tied to the apron-strings of the priests, are never done crying out : — " On our side is Virtue and Erin ; On theirs is the Saxon and Guilt ! " This midnight mission, this oasis in a desert of vice, I find, is situated at 81 Lower Tyrone Street. The... | |
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