AM I REMEMBERED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 75, 3 October 1874, Page 13

AM I REMEMBERED.

Ami remembered in Erin P I charge you to tell me true — Has my name a sound, a meaning. In the scenes my boyhood knew ? Does the heart, of the mother over Recall the exile's name ? For to be forgot in Erin And earth is nil the same. Oh, Mother, Mother Erin! Many sons your age hath seen ; Many gifted, constant lovers, Since your mantle first was green. Then may I hope ro cherish, The dream that I could be In your crowded memory remembered, With that palm-covered company ? Yes, faint and fair, my Mother As the hope shines on my sight, I cannot choose but snatch it Till my eyes have lost their sight. For never among your brightest And never among your beat W«> heart more true to Erin Than beats within my breast.