Refusing every base compliance—

Your Praise within, your Prize above,

And live and die in Self-Reliance!


THE BURIAL.[82] ]

Why rings the knell of the funeral bell from a hundred village shrines?

Through broad Fingall, where hasten all those long and ordered lines?

With tear and sigh they're passing by—the matron and the maid—

Has a hero died—is a nation's pride in that cold coffin laid?

With frown and curse, behind the hearse, dark men go tramping on—