FATHER PROUT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 294, 13 May 1879, Page 2

FATHER PROUT.

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The death of "Faffier Pront" called forth a great many in- tributes, and among them the~ following" {probably th 6 best of all) :f—„ : ■ .' . *'/ In deep^fejeution,.bat-with .■■'' rbfteh think of those pleasant times, In the. days of "Frazer," ere I touted * {■ razor, ■• - ; •''■■;■,.' -r 5, ■■- : How I read aid- rebelled in thy racy rhymes, -.J-- . i When in wine and wassail; we to thee , "., were vassal, ; Of hill," 0 renowned " F.Pi"— ' ■'■'■' ' i .-■".' ".'.'" May the Bells of Shandon . > Toll blithe and bland on . The pleasant waters of thy memory. : Full many a ditty,"both wise and wiity^ In,this, social city have I heard since - • "then— , ■"' . / '"'= ■'• : '■'■ : With the glass before me, how the dreams, come o'er me .■•;;.., , . :; Of those Attic suppers, and those vanished men !. , • ; But no song hath woken, whether sung or spoken, Or hath left a token of Bach joy in tne. As the Bells of Shandon ■ - > s r ) That sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the river Lee t j The eongs melodious,][ which—a new Harmodius— , ' -■ "Young Ireland" wreathed round , its rebel sword, With their deep vibrations and aspirations, Fling a glorious madness o'er the festive board,"' But to me Seema sweeter the melodions metre Of the simple lyric that we? owe tothee— Of the Bells of Shandon That sound so grand on The pleasant water of the river Lee. There's a grave that rises on thy award . Devises,. Where Moore, fiea sleeping from his land afar \ • And a white stone flashes o'er Goldsmith's ashes " " ,' In the quiet cloister of Temple Bar ; So, where'er.thou sleeperf, with a, love that's deepest, Shall thy land remember thy sw.eet song ■ and thee, '„„,.■ ' •- ',While,the Bells of Shandon • , Shall sound so grand on /, The-pleasant waters of the river lice , .' — Cork Examiner. "