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And the Violet only mummi ed, i! I’m here,’1
And sweet grew the air of' Spring.
Then i( 1 la ! ha I ha!’' a chorus came
Of ln.ughf.cr, soft and fow,
From the millions of flowers under the ground—
Yes, millions— beginning to grow.

Oh, the pretty, brave things ! through the coldest days,
Imprisoned in walls of brown,
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They never lost heart though the blast shrieked loud,
And the sleet and the hail came down,
Bui patiently each wrought llOr beaut if ill dress,
Or fashioned her beautiful crown;
And now they arc coming to brighten the world,
Still shadowed by Winter’s frown ;
And we LI may they cheerily laugh, “ Ha! ha!"
In a chorus soft and low,
The millions of fiowers hid under the ground—■
Yes, millions— beginning to grow.

WRONGS OF IRELAND.

H E R E A F T E R , when these things shall be history, your age of
thraldom and r> overly, your sudden resurrection, commercial
redress, and nti men Ions arm a merit, shall the historian stop to
declare, that here the principal men amongst us fell into mimic traces
of gratitude: they were: aiv<;c by a. weak ministry, and bribed by an
empty treasury; and when liberty was within their grasp, and the
temple opened her folding-doors, and the urms of the people changed,
and the zeal of the nation urged and encouraged them on, that they
loll down, and were prostituted at the threshold.
I will not be answered by a pub he lie in the shape of an amend­
ment: neither, speaking for the subjects' freedom, am I to hear of
faction. I wish for nothing but to breathe in i-his our island, in com-