The  cry  of  disaffection  will  not,  in  the  end,  avail  against  the  princi-

{)le  of  liberty.  I  do  not  give  up  the  country.  I  see  her  in  a  swoon,
)ut  she  is  not  dead.  Though  in  her  tomb  she  lies  helpless  and  motion-
less, still  there  is  on  her  lips  a  spirit  of  life,  and  on  her  cheek  a  glow
of  beauty :

•*  Thoa  art  not  conquered ;  beauty's  ensign  yet
Is  orimson  in  thy  lips,  and  in  thy  cheeks.
And  Death's  pale  flag  i^  nut  advanced  there.**

While  a  plank  of  the  vessel  sticks  together,  I  will  not  leave  her.  Let
the  courtier  present  his  flimsy  sail,  and  carry  the  light  bark  of  his
fiiith  with  every  new  breath  of  wind ;  I  will  remain  anchored  here,
with  fidelity  to  the  fortunes  of  my  country,  faithful  to  her  freedom,
fiiithful  to  her  fiill !


71.  THE  CATHOLIC  QUESTION,  1805.  —  Henry  Orattan.
