The Indian Advocate (Sacred Heart, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 2, Ed. 1, Monday, February 1, 1909 Page: 17 of 48
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THE INDIAN ADVOCATE 60
Across the wide ocean to claim my devotion
There dwells a young maiden entrancing and grand!
Lately we parted in fervent emotion
Thrilling the touch of her lingering hand!
But thou art the nearest and fondest and dearest
Thou art the love that my infancy knew!
Fate hath decreed thee a life the severest
Erin my darling to thee I'll be true.
A day will come when some Irishman returning to his
native land will change somewhat the wording if not the
sentiment of this beautiful poem. He may indeed say
'Glory to God but it's sweet to behold thee" not "lowly
and poor and enslaved as thou art" but standing forth
proud and magnificent in the freshness of untrammeled
nationality; on her lips not the sad smile that bespeaks
patience forbearance and heroic recognition to the bitter
inevitable and elicits the condoling sympathy of a fond
son but the full smile of gladness that bespeaks achieved
ambition and calls forth jubilant congratulations her eyes
sparkling with the happiness that fills her soul the glow
of health on her re-juvenated cheeks glistening in the sun-
light of freedom no fear that tomorrow will bring her
more sorrow from the inveterate foe but free to resume
her cherished vocation in her once well-cultivated fields of
literature arts and science free to pursue her destiny
along the road of peace progress and prosperity to the
goal that she never yet lost sight of mental physical
and moral excellence.
This is the hope that is in us. This is the hope that
every lover of freedom should strive to make a reality by
giving material and moral support to those who are con-
ducting the battle that is ultimately to make Ireland the
land of the free as well as the home of the brave.
(Speech delivered in the Academy of Music Brooklyn N. Y.)
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