THE EMERALD ISLE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 10, 5 July 1873, Page 10

THE EMERALD ISLE.

A tbaemeb m Ireland says that although he has always known Ira land was called the Emerald Isle on account of its greenness It never entered his imagination that there was auywhere in the worfd sue* a verdure as charms all eyes in the rural districts of IreG I Tha slopes, the knolls, the dells, the fields of young *„!„, O ror w i'ch the " breezes creep like playful spirits of the beautiful : the pasture dotted with white sheep of the purest wool ; tho hillsides, risin' up into he mist-shrouded mountains, are all covered wilh thick carpete 7ot smooth velvet green. Ireland can also be called the Flowery Isl e . There£ notaspotm he land where nature can find an excuse for putting^ flower, but she has put one-not only in the gardens and in tW meadows, but upon the very walls and orags of the scu, fro^ heVeat blooming rhododendrons down to the smallest flower that moJestfr peeps forth from its grassy cover. The Irish furze, a rich yellow covers all places that might otherwise be barren ; the silk worm AT light* everywhere, from thousands of trees, to droop its web of cold " the blooming hawthorn, with its sweet scent of pink, and especial^ the white variety, adorns the landscape and the gardens ; wild flovrerf of every hue and variety, clamber to hide the harshness of tha mniaL' supports; the beetling cliffs of the North Sea are fringed and toft en.-d with lovaly flowers; and if you kneel almost anywhere on the yie JS° gf i^ *3 ° Brpe > y °n WiU fiml liUle> well ni « h il ' vi9ib!o nowers —red, white, blue, and yellow; wrought into the very woof and texu Ur< \-, I ? 3land oU S hfc t0 be calleJ t] i e Beautiful Isle. The spirit of th« An,?*, U V T ovep . ao it° ache3 <° living loveliness every point! And yet, the dwellers in this land turn their faces from it, seekine a. less beautiful country, because, within its borders, Tyranny and