O'CONNELL.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 48, 4 July 1844, Page 4

O'CONNELL.

“ The manner In which you received me over- ; »*'■■> < fed my heart—l was going to say my aged • u't hut my heart is young as ever.’* f >"> onnell. (> ! no, not a ray of thy wonderful mind • v i darkened, or dimmed or diverted away • V <1 'tie wrtath,of thy gtory, in boyhood entwined. 1 • yet (resh oo thy brow, “ as on that happy day.’’ ! i • no, not, a pulse of thy patriot heart K yet deadened or slackened at liberty’s call; 11 d. as ever,, the star-of thy country thou art, As bright in thy coarse, and as far from the fall. ’ ’Mlier stars have ariren —they twinkled awhile< Sortie faded or set, and were heard of no more—huh' maliglantly glared on the Emerald Isle, And the nations rejoiced when their shining was o’er;

,"-f fiou art the samp from thy dawning till now, v.-i fighting our pathway, and gladdening our e\es.; ■ II 1 lie pride and the worship of milliors art thou

A'• ho, like fhee, bath arisen? who ever shall rise } »* y .when pronounced at Festivity’s boqrd, ' (lie cottager’s hearlh in the fields, on the hills '■ ; f thou wert a being not loved but adored, i.ike a watchword from heaven, enlivens and thrills. I bon art silent! - we’ve no one to counsel or guide ; Tm«u speakest ! at once, and from sea unto sea ■ i .>'<■ ate millions all ready, whate’< r may betide

> o watch but thy will, and to follow but thee. AA tiei’e an arm is uplifted to injure the right—•V here a tongue is in motion to slander our name I ij- i f tliine is the.>eloquence—thine is the might t o wifher that arm, and to wipe out the shame. I lie;i dread not, thou champion of Freedom and Faith! I ii- father, the stay, and the pride of our Isle ! Then dread not decay, for the Angel of Death To the weal of thy country must spare tbee awhile.

A - (he sun was of old, in bis evening career, Uv tire prayer of a prophet restrained for a time ; So 'he prayers of a nation shall still keep thee here, i’lip thou’st finished the whole of thy mission sublime. And the glory that flashes around thee to day— That shall hallow hereafter thy name and thy dust, 1 - a type hut of that which shall not fade away. And shall crown thee and bless, in the Land of the Just.