The night that hath no morrow was brooding on the main:

But, lo! a light is breaking of hope for thee again;

’T is Perseus’s sword a-flaming, thy dawn of day proclaiming

Across the western main.

O Ireland! O my country! he comes to break thy chain!

NATURE THE FALSE GODDESS

By James Jeffrey Roche

The vilest work of vilest man,

The cup that drugs, the sword that slays,

The purchased kiss of courtesan,