I too shall be gone, but my
name shall be spoken,
When Erin awakes and her fetters
are broken
Some minstrel shall come in
the summer’s eve gleaming,
When Freedom’s young
light on his spirit is beaming,
And bend o’er my grave
with a tear of emotion,
Where calm Avonbui seeks the
kisses of ocean,
Or plant a wild wreath from
the banks of that river,
O’er the heart and the
harp that are sleeping for ever.
We saw at a short distance, the pass which so enraptured us the night before, but we resisted the temptation to revisit it, lest the glare of light might disenchant us of those sublime impressions of beauty it had made on our minds.
We found a most comfortable dinner on our arrival, for which we could not account. In the course of the evening we learned casually from our host that he had spent several years of his life where it was impossible he should not have seen and known me. This was a disturbing conviction wherewith to retire to rest, but we trusted to our propitious stars, in which we had begun to feel a superstitious confidence. We were not disappointed then or afterwards, and next morning we slept in unquestioning security. We rose late and reluctantly, and left a scene where we enjoyed more undisturbed rest and real comfort than had fallen to our lot for weeks before. The day became dark and showery. Crossing the bogs in the recesses of Shehigh, we were overtaken by a storm, from which we took shelter in some hay gathered on the bleak moor, where I wrote the following:—
Hurrah for the
outlaw’s life!
Hurrah for the
felon’s doom!
Hurrah for the
last death-strife!
Hurrah for an
exile’s tomb!
Come life or death, ’tis
still the same,
So we preserve our stainless
name
From losel of the coward’s
shame.
Hurrah for the
mountain side!
Hurrah for the
bivouac!
Hurrah for the
heaving tide!
If rocking the
felon’s track.
Hurrah for the
scanty meal!
If served by th’
ungrudging hand,
Hurrah for the
hearts of steel,
Still true to
this fallen land!
Still true, though every hazard
brings
Some new disaster on its wings,
Which o’er her last
faint hope it flings.
Hurrah,
etc.
Hurrah; though
the gibbet loom!
Hurrah; though
the brave be low!
Hurrah; though
a villain doom!
The true to the
headsman’s blow.
As long as one life-throb
remain,
We’ll spurn the tyrant’s
gyve and chain
On gallows-tree or bloody
plain.
Hurrah, etc.
Hurrah for that
smile of light,
Which like a prophetic
star,
Illumined the
long, lone night
Of the wanderers
from afar.
Give us for resting-place
the rath,
Give us to brave the foeman’s
wrath,