The name of our victor may be;

Accurst is the march of that glory

Which treads on the hearts of the free!

“Far dearer the grave, or the prison,

Illumed by one patriot name,

Than the trophies of all who have risen

On liberty’s ruin to fame!”


BOOK VI

TREATING OF THE PERIOD FROM THE SECOND SIEGE OF LIMERICK, IN 1691, TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE EXILED FRANCO-IRISH BRIGADE A CENTURY LATER