MEREDITH'S LAST MESSAGE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 9

MEREDITH'S LAST MESSAGE.

/ /-In the ! Jiflylihuii/ibef "Sfcribner.'s' Magd'zine" ..appears'..a .new 'Jposthiimbus l poem by Geor|e:/Meredith:.' It ,;is-:ontitled.'"lreland," and ; is; 'a«'passionate'i.':;toEngland to iinderßt-and the.- unwilling- 'bride,'.: Avhom ir.Mr. William Watson's' phrase ; "we bsva wedded^^!but/havo^^leyer'^,.w,bn , '. ;

You. read lier ,as a land . - : ■ "Where.■bitterest-rebel; passions seethe. ; Look witli, a/core/of' heart in tlio'uglit, - - ~ For so'.is known the ' truthi bencaih.';-'. , . : She came••.t6(y6u-ia-.-16 i a£hing' 1 ';brWe, : ' . ■•'^A'nd'fit•-h'fa j .Been7-ißpV.lappy.,hpd.' ;.- * Believe'in her.'as : ti-friend, allied' ~ ,- By'bonds ,-as close'.'as those ;who/wed;- , "Tfust her," he says, "that. ; she'.may.prove her .true ,lii;.links .whereof, is ..love -jiKe. fount." Then- he'goes-on:. . , ■ , ■ , May she uot call heiself her own? • ;v4That}is hei' cry, -.and thence her spits . / Of fury, thoriee her graceless tone - ■'/■• : :-'- . At justice"given bits": and'.bits. The'limbs, once raw with", gnawing, chains, , - Will fret'at .silken when God's .beams Of Freedomi beckon o'er ./the-/plains/- -. . !' ,- :]?rom .mriunts;that* show,;it- more than .dreams. '.!She, 'generous,-.praves a - generous dole." "To be a nation"; is. the claim ,of her offspring :. . v.i - '■

A nation, she, and .formed to charm, ../ ' With heart ,for heart. and r hands all round. 'No'.longer 'England's broken, aria,'-' ,'-■'/: "Would' England kno'wWliqre strength is.found. And strength;• to-day Is/England's ,need; -'i To'-'m'ofrow be for both ' ; Salvation:-heed the portents, heed ~The. warnings; free! the mind. from; sloth. And- he closos' with - a vision of England and Ireland one, and "old rancor's frown" flee•ing .before'thoir'high and united hearts. '