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AN GAOḊAL.
The Irishman who read "Goldsmith's Deserted
Village" unmoved by home sentiments is hard-
hearted indeed —
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain
Where health and plenty cheer'd the laboring
swain
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid
And parting summer's ling'ring gloom delay'd
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please
How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green,
Where humble happiness endear'd each scene!
How often have I paus'd on every charm —
The shelter'd cot, the cultivated farm,
The never-failing brook, the busy mill —
The decent church that topp'd the neigb'ring bill,
The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade
For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made !
How often have I bless'd the coming day
When til remitting lent its turn to play.
And all the village train from labor free,
Led up their sports baneath the spreading tree
While many a pastime circled in the shade
The young contending as the old survey'd,
And many a gambol frolick'd o'er the ground
And sleights of art and feats of strength went round
And still as each repeated pleasure tir'd
Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspir'd
The dancing pair that simply sought renown
By holding out to tire each other down.
The swain mistrustless of his smutted face
While secret laughter titter'd round the place,
The bashful virgins sidelong looks of love
The matron's glance that would these looks reprov.
These were thy charms sweet village! sports like
these
With sweet succession taught e en toil to please
These round the bowers their cheerful influenc
shed
These were the charms but all these charms are
fled.
In all my wandering round this world of care —
In all my griefs — and God has given my share —
I still had hopes my latest hours to crown
Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down.
Some time since a Prussian lady asked an Irish
lady why she did not speak Irish, her national
speech. Oh, said her Irish friend, "Tis only the
low Oirish that 'spakes Oirish, we high Oirish
'spakes' nothing but Inglish — sure it was Inlish
St. Patrick and St. Bridget spoked." "How can
that be — there was no English language in their
time" said our Prussian friend. The high Irish
lady waddled off with a gait which would lead one
to beleive that bird-lime was stuck to her heels.
Quite a number of Irish persons display their
ignorance and want of patriotism in the same un¬
worthy manner. We cannot conceive how any in¬
telligent Irishman — educated or uneducated — can
help to bow his head in shame when he has to
avow his ignorance of the language of his country
before any educated foreigner. What must such
foreigner believe of his patriotism? Why — that
he has none!
Persons such as those described above should
permit their sires to rest in peace and not make
them parties to their own social degradation by
the common excuse "My parents did not teach it
to me" etc. for that Irishman unable to under¬
stand the national speech of his country (and that
speech understood and practised by one-half of
his countrymen) is, indeed, socially degraded.
We have met men who presumptiously called
themselves Irishmen boast of their acquaintance
with the Classics and yet avowed that they never
saw the Irish Alphabet! what they could buy for
5 cents. It is difficult to classify such men.
Rev Father Fitzgerald of this city delivered
a lecture in Irish in St. Patrick's Church (Fath¬
er Hennessy pastor) Jersey City Heights, on the
evening of June 16, which was an immense suc¬
cess
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In Éirinn uasal, Innis na riġ!
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