And to my will, fail never to respond."

[!-- H2 anchor --]

THE EASTER RISING IN IRELAND

Who, in descent from Heaven's ecstatic throng,

Was twin to light, and ranged from source to sea,

And shore to peak, and God, drew up to thee

The generations happy, pure and strong?

Freedom, as Erin's was, ere ruthless wrong

Caught, scourged and hanged it on the out-law's tree;

And is; for lo! it proves Divinity,