THO' THE LAST GLIMPSE OF ERIN.
AIR — The Coulin.
Tho' the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,
Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;
In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,
And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam
To the gloom of some desert or cold rocky shore
Where the eye of the stranger can haunt is no
more,
I will fly with my Coulin, and think the rough
[wind
Less rude than the foes we leave frowning behind
And I'll gaze on thy gold hair, as graceful it
wreathes
And hang o'er the soft harp, as wildly it breathes
Nor dread that the cold-hearted Saxon will tear
One chord from that harp, or one lock from that
hair.
SENTIMENTS OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS.
Con — New Haven C J Hayes, J D Kelleher, P
Murphy, per the gallant Major Maher — Hartford
P. O'Donovan.
Ill — Amboy, Rev. J S Gallagher — Cairo, R.
Smyth, R. Fitzgerald, Dl O'Connell, D Kelly, per
Mr. Kelly — Chicago, Wm. Raleigh, P Ahearn.
Kan — Lincoln Centre, Godfrey Downey, Ed.
Dillon, per Mr Dillon.
Mass — Fall River, M J O'Sullivan — Holliston,
H. Sullivan — N. Brookfield, Thos. Hayes.
Mich — Grand Rapids, Maurice Downey (late of
Montague. Gaels will hear of big work from G.
Rapids).
Minn — Waterville, J Murphy.
Mo — Kan. City, M Kilroy, Ed Cuningham, T
Houlihan, Ed Lynch, M White, per P McEniry —
St Louis, P Hannon, T W Gardiner, per Mr Han¬
non.
N Y — Brooklyn, Miss Mary Guiren, T Jordan
— City, Philo Celtic Society, per President Casey
(5), W H Burke, J P Fallon, P A Ginnelly per
Mr Ginnelly, Rev Father Cuniff, Rev. Martin L.
Murphy, Cincinnati, O — Yonkers, M Cleary.
O — Cincinnati, an t-Aṫair Mártan
L. O'Murċuġaḋ ce deir: A ċaraid ḋí¬
lis, cuirim Órduġaḋ an ṗosta ar cúig
dollars faoi na bliaḋantaiḃ [2] ċuaiḋ
ṫart, agus mar sin, támuid air dtús
ḃliaḋain eile le congnaṁ Dé.
Le meas mór,
Do ċaraid fíor-ḃuan,
Mártan L. Ó Murċuġaḋ.
Pa — Allegheny, Rev. M. Carroll — Scranton, P.
F May, who paid a friendly visit to The Gael and
chucked a $5. bill into its treasury ; M J Malia,
T O'Donnell, per Prof. Lovern — Williamsport, J
Gibbons.
R I — Providence, M O'Donoghue, Newport. P
Sheehan, the latter two per M J O'Sullivan, Fall
River, Mass.
W Va — Wheeling, Dillon J McCormick, James
Quinn, J Dolan, per Mr. McCormick.
Can — Cornwall, Rev. Dr. MacNish.
Ireland, Dublin, Mr. Thunder, P J Keawell,
per P O'Brien — Mayo, Bally Garries, M May N
T, Lisatava, M Mylott, C E. both per P F May
Scanton, Pa — Cahair Davis, Thos. McCormick —
Mullagh Ruagh, John Gaughan, both per Dillon
J McCormick, Wheeling, W Va. The intelligent
Gael need not be told why as many Gaels as possi¬
ble should be sent to Ireland.]
Cork — Ballingeary, M O'Brien.
The Gael would suggest to those pro-English
newspapers which never tire of dubbing the
Murphys, the Sheehans, and all other distinctive¬
ly Irish names "Tammany thugs," and every o¬
ther opprobrious billingsgatal name in their vo¬
cabulary, to shut up — at least for a year or two,
until a few winters' frost rarefies the thick, nox¬
ious stench exhaled by their putrefactious Fifth
Avenue confreres — the Seeleys, the Phipps, the
Riches et al. We pray that Providence may deign
to not visit New York with the fate of Sodom and
Gomorrah because of the compartively few Ang¬
lo-saxons in the city to pollute its atmosphere.
A Celtic Chair has been established in Johns
Hopins University, Baltimore, recently. So that
Keltic is now established in the three leading u¬
niversities of America, thanks to the A. O. Hiberni¬
ans. Now that Keltic Chairs have been founded
in the leading universities of the civilized world
because a knowledge of its literature is indispen¬
sable to the full and effective pursuit of philolog¬
ical research, it can never die; and, by its intrin¬
sic value and antiquity, having compelled the res¬
pect and admiration of the learned world and, in¬
cidentally, for the people whose Native language
it is should not every self respecting Irishman join
the forces now laboring to restore it to its full ver¬
nacular vigor, and not merely as an academical
appendage as sought by some soulless West Bri¬
ish Mugwumps who desire the obliteration of Ire¬
land from the roll of nations.
The Gael offers its sincere condolence to Bro.
James Hagerty, Burlington, Ia. on the death of
his beloved wife. May she rest peace.
The Gael had a friendly visit from Mr. Martin
Henehan of the Providence Society last week,
Brother M J O'Sullivan, who has been in Fall
River for some time, was in his place at the Socie¬
ty last Sunday evening.
The vocabulary, Goillis and a lot of other mat¬
ter are crushed out of this issue.
