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toward Consumption.” - Long-delayed
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The Past ami Future of the Irish Kite.
BY J. W. MfRPjrV, OF PLATTEVILLE.
Delivered at nigh I and, lowa countv, Wisconsin,
M areh 17Ut. ISSO.
Ladies and gentlemen; To-night for
the first time in my life I stand before
an audience in your village and yet,!
feel that I stand among friends. The
occasion that brings us here to-day
and the hallowed memories it recalls
remind us scattered children of the
Gael that;
“ Though widely divergent our paths now trend,
To-night each one’s clasping the hand of a friend;
For oppression that ground us through centuries
gray,
In friendship has hound us for ever and aye.
And as brothers In union together we pray
That the clouds which have obscured every ray
Of Liberty’s sunshine may soon pass away;
And the sunburst of Erin triumphant once more,
May illume each hill top and vale as of yore.”
Saint Patrick’s day—that name is
like a talisman of old. At the sound
the centuries glide by as in a dream.
