Davitt! a landlord bequeaths thee his blessing,

(’Tis all that you’ve left him in Erin-go-Bragh).

And (in my shirt-sleeves across the broad ocean)

I’ll pray for Parnell who put voters in motion,

And filled their thick heads with this new-fangled notion

That leaves them the masters of Erin-go-Bragh.

M. O’Brien.

From The Irish Fireside, February 6, 1886.

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The Escape of the Aldermen.