ORIGINAL POETRY.
INVOCATION TO A WIND FROM IRELAND. F y swiftly happy wind, and bring Some happy news to me From that dear isle I love so well Beyond the purple sea. Great waves may swell their foaming crests, And threat the stormy sky, And through the roaring chaos thrown Vindiciive lightnings fly. Bat. thou, dear wind, wilt swiftly glide, Fa r as a snowy dove In golden light above the storm With news of all I love. St, George's jealous'channel parts Ti e great land of my birth From that fair isle that in my heart Lives dearest home on earth. 0! happy wind, blow nobly there, Gi eat England's flag unfold, And, with a sister kiss, salute Dear Ireland's green and gold. Then, o'er the wild Biscayaa wave, fly lightly on thy way," Nor let the soft Atlantic isles Beguile thy flight to stay. Nor fold thy languid wings above I hose wastes of limpid blue Whose waves, like-malted jewels, flash O'er seas of violet dew; Deep blaok, and gold, and fiery red The tropic sunsets gow, While ocoan'a bur ished, crimson flood Heaves vast and emoolli below. Now, swiftly, past the sultry land Of tawny lions fly, And hush beneath that blessed sign That gems the southern sky. Then o'er that Australasian isle, Whose brows are crownod with gold ; Nor yet above her glittering mines Thy coming pinions fold. Come, happy wind, dear Ireland's air, Gome,, fan my brow once more, And whisper to my exiled heart: " They love thee yet Asthore."
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 23, 15 April 1890, Page 2
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255ORIGINAL POETRY. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 23, 15 April 1890, Page 2
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