“Love the dear land in which you live,
  Live in the land you ought to love;
Take root, and let your branches give
  Fruits to the soil they wave above;
No matter what your foreign name,
  No matter what your sires have done,
No matter whence or when you came,
  The land shall claim you as a son!”

As in the azure fields on high,
When Spring lights up the April sky,
The thick battalioned dusky clouds
Fly o’er the plain like routed crowds
Before the sun’s resistless might! 
Where all was dark, now all is bright;
The very clouds have turned to light,
And with the conquering beams unite!

Thus o’er the face of John MacJohn
A thousand varying shades have gone;
Jealousy, anger, rage, disdain,
Sweep o’er his brow—­a dusky train;
But nature, like the beam of spring,
Chaseth the crowd on sunny wing;
Joy warms his heart, hope lights his eye,
And the dark passions routed fly!

The hands are clasped—­the hound is freed,
Gone is MacJohn with wife and steed,
He meets his spearsmen some few miles,
And turns their scowling frowns to smiles: 
At morn the crowded march begins
Of steeds and cattle for the glynnes;
Well for poor Erin’s wrongs and griefs,
If thus would join her severed chiefs!

77.  A beautiful inlet, about six miles west of Donegal.

78.  Lough Eask is about two miles from Donegal.  Inglis describes it as being as pretty a lake, on a small scale, as can well be imagined.

79.  The sands of Rosapenna are described as being composed of “hills and dales, and undulating swells, smooth, solitary, and desolate, reflecting the sun from their polished surface,” &c.

80.  “Clan Dalaigh” is a name frequently given by Irish writers to the Clan O’Donnell.

81.  The “Fairy Gun” is an orifice in a cliff near Bundoran (four miles S.W. of Ballyshannon), into which the sea rushes with a noise like that of artillery, and from which mist, and a chanting sound, issue in stormy weather.

82.  The waterfall at Ballyshannon.

83.  The O’Donnells are descended from Conal Golban, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages.

84.  Cushendall is very prettily situated on the eastern coast of the county Antrim.  This, with all the territory known as the “Glynnes” (so called from the intersection of its surface by many rocky dells), from Glenarm to Ballycastle, was at this time in the possession of the MacDonnells, a clan of Scotch descent.  The principal castle of the MacDonnells was at Glenarm.

85.  The Rock of Doune, in Kilmacrenan, where the O’Donnells were inaugurated.

86.  The Hebrides.

87.  Carrick-a-rede (Carraig-a-Ramhad)—­the Rock in the Road lies off the coast, between Ballycastle and Portrush; a chasm sixty feet in breadth, and very deep, separates it from the coast.

88.  The waterfall of Assaroe, at Ballyshannon.