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ttion with iny fellow-subjects, the air of liberty ; I have no ambition,
unlesa it he the ambition to break your chains, and contemplate your
glory. I never will be satisfied as long as the meatiest cottager in
Ireland has a link of British chain clanking in his rags ; he may be
naked, lie shall not be iti irons. And I do see the time is at hand, the
spirit is gone forth, the declaration is planted: and though great men
should apostatize, yet the cause will live: and though the public
speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which
conveyed it, anti the breath of liberty, like the word of tlie holy mam
shall-not die with the prophet, but survive him.— -I-Ie ^ r y G r a t t a n ,

A BALLAD OF BRAVE W OM EN,

[ O f't" S w r t t l J j t F L i a .L a lO T T M n J
\ r iT H hiss and thunder and inner boom—
W . Whi'e through the darkness tlie great waves loom
And charge the rocks with the shock of doom.

A second sea is the hurricane’s blast;
Its vicwiess billows are loud and vast,
By their strength great trees are uptorn and downcast

To-night falls many a goodly tree,
As many a ship through the raging sea
Shall go with the strange sea-things to be.

.At times, through the hurry of clouds, the moon
Looks out aghast; bnt her faee right soon
Is hidden again, and she seems to swoon,

O, the wind waves, and oh, the sea waves,
The gulfs of wind and the sea-gulfs for graves*
Fast through the air1 how she Jlics and raves ;

Raves with a magical, mad delight,
The viewless spirit of storm and night.
Heart of the wind, and soul of his might,