ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. (From the Literary Gazette.)
We remember, some time ago, seeing oner of Samuel Lover's fanciful songs, which was called "The Royal Dream," in which be prophesied the visit of the Queen to Ireland, and. the prophecy, in some respects, was sin* gularly true. The very fact, noticed in the reports of her Majestys's landing in Dublin, of the roar of the artillery being drowned in the heartfelt thouta of an enthusiastic people, was present to the poet's fancy, for in such a a " thunderbust of loyal hearts," he predicted the landing of a queen in ** her own Emerald Isle." Altogether, we think, at the present moment, the song worth quoting, as a curious instance of how " coming events cast their shadows before" on a poet's mind ; and, as the poet, in this instance, is an Irishman, he seems to have trenched upon what was considered a prerogative' of Scotland, and has had a happy gift of "second sight."
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 472, 9 February 1850, Page 2
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162ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. (From the Literary Gazette.) New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 472, 9 February 1850, Page 2
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