That Ireland keeps in her heart’s heart to-day?
“If even his hand and hilt were so distained,
If he was guilty as he has been blamed,
His death redeemed his life—he chose to die
Rather than get his freedom with a lie.
Plant o’er his gallant heart a laurel tree,
So may his head within the shadow be!
“I mourn for thee, O hero of the North—
God judge thee gentler than we do on earth!
I mourn for thee and for our land, because