AN SEAN-FHEAR CHÓIR.
BY P. A. DOUGHER.
Tá an nuaidheachd i teacht análl
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Beidh sí ann seo air báll
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir;
Féin-Riaghail Ghráinne Mhaoil
Sé bun 's bárr mo sgéil
'Gus léighfimid é gan aithbhéil,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Tá ann achrann agus gleo
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Leis an dlígheamh thugamar dóibh,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir;
Mar bhí le ceud bliadhain,
Ó fuair Sacsanaigh an srian,
Air na h-Éireannaighibh gan mian,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Anois caithfimid é admháil,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Gur ghoideamar le díobháil,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Gach sonas a bhí le meas
'Sa Saoirse le n-a n-ais;
Rinn'mar díobháil dóibh gan leas,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Chuir muid na sluaidhte i b-príosún,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
'Gus marbhaigheamh iad gan réasún,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir;
Tá sé scríobhtha i stáir na tíor'
'Nna litreachaibh ró-fhíor
Is ní féidir a múchadh siar,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Tá sé n-am an chúis seo shocrúgh'
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Tá sé bh-fad go leor a dochrúgh',
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Tá na h-Éireannaigh bochta caoch
Is maithfidh siad na fiach'
A's neartóchaidh linn an Ríoghachd,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Tá an geinealach seo iongantach,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
'Gus an gníomh seo iondheuntach,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Bhéirfimid ceart go Inisfáil,
'Gus caithfidh siad é fhághail,
Dar n-aindeoin béidhid faoi cháil,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Tá mire ag dul inn aoise,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
'Gus bheirim cómhairle dhíbh-se,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Bí cóir a's béidh orraibh grádh
'Measg bhur chómhursanadh gach lá,
Leis béidh orraibh an t ádh,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Anois guidhim air na Cummain,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Mo thír agus mo bhainríoghain,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir,
Le foighid an reachd seo athrughadh,
Do gach nidh tá'mar ag gealladh,
Le faitchíos Éire i chailleadh,
Ars an Sean-fhear Cóir.
Mr. Dougher says, — I have tried to embody the
essential points of the new Home Rule Bill summa¬
ry in as few verses as possible, as proposed by the
premier, Mr Gladstone, in the British House of
Commons, in the presence of the largest assemblage
ever witnessed there, on Feb. 13, 1893.
Some of our Gaelic friends think we should “use
more sugar" with monied Irishmen to enlist their
services in the Gaelic cause. No; money corrupts
them. We have a proof of this at our very door. —
Wm R Grace would never warm his seat in the
mayoral chair of New York City were it not by the
exertions of Tammany Hall. But, like the snake in
the fable, the political prestige which Tammany's
actions enabled him to wield he uses in his effort to
destroy it. It was this prestige that led to the no¬
mination, and his subsequent election, of Mr. Cleve¬
land (the Republicans taking care that Harrison
could not force himself on them), thus placing Tam¬
many's mortal enemy, the knownothing mugwump,
in the saddle. A poor man would not act such an
ingrate. Woe to the patriotic cause which depends
on monied men ; or any cause.
We have not seen a single Irish-American news
paper that has not lauded Mr. Blaine in their mor¬
tuary notices of him. — Friends, is it not in order for
you to explain to your readers why you sought to
defame and degrade your great, brilliant, country¬
man during his life ? Will not your intelligent rea¬
ders look on you as a pack of lying, unscrupulous,
selfseeking defamers who would sacrifice the inter¬
ests of their native land on the altar of personal
gain and, therefore, undeserving the support of pa¬
triotic, selfrespecting men,
Let all make an effort to circulate the Gael.
