This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE LAST DAY. Oh after life's dark sinful way. How shall I meet that dreadful day. When heaven's red blaze spreads frightfully Above the hissing withering sea, --And earth thro' all her regions reels. With the strong--shiv'ring fear she feels. When that high trumpet's awful sound, Shall send its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE LAST DAY. Oh after life's dark sinful way. How shall I meet that dreadful day. When heaven's red blaze spreads frightfully Above the hissing withering sea, --And earth thro' all her regions reels. With the strong--shiv'ring fear she feels. When that high trumpet's awful sound, Shall send its deep-voiced summons round, And starting from their long, cold sleep, The living-dead shall wildly leap Oh by the painful path you trod, Have mercy then--my Lord my God Oh thou who on that hill of blood, Beside thy Son in anguish stood;--Thou, who above this life of ill, .Art the bright star to guide us still; Pray that my soul, its sins forgiv'n, Kay find some lonely home in heav'n. NOTES TO THE RECLUSE OF 1NCHIDONY. (It will be at once seen that these Poems have all been written long before the passing of the relief Bill. To none more than to the writer could the pleasing prospects opened up by the enactment of this hdBling measure be more truly, or sincerely gratifying. To behold the unworthy fetters of a noble and gallant nation riven, --her energies unbound, --her centuries of strife and disunion terminated, and the day of her liberation and repose arrived, was a consummation, which, though devoutly desired, was scarcely to be looked for in his generation; and were these Poems to be now re-written, doubtless the tone of sorrow and despondency which perhaps too much pervades them, would give place to one more cheerful and congenial to the altered circumstances of Ireland. In the East, as well as in the West of Europe, the prospect is equally cheering. While Ireland has been unsealing and purging her long abused vision, the cause of Freedom has not stood still in a country too much a-kin to her, in fate and misrule. Greece has happily...
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