Sullivan, A.M., 1830-1884 / 2008-05-31 00:00:00
EBOOK THE WEARING OF THE GREEN ***
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THE
"WEARING OF THE GREEN,"
_OR_
THE PROSECUTED FUNERAL PROCESSION.
* * * * *
Let the echoes fall unbroken;
Let our tears in silence flow;
For each word thus nobly spoken,
Let us yield a nation's woe;
Yet, while weeping, sternly keeping
Wary watch upon the foe.
_Poem in the_ "NATION."
DUBLIN:
A.M. SULLIVAN, ABBEY STREET.
1868.
THE
PROSECUTED FUNERAL PROCESSION.
* * * * *
The news of the Manchester executions on the morning of Saturday, 23rd
November, 1867, fell upon Ireland with sudden and dismal disillusion.
In time to come, when the generation now living shall have passed away,
men will probably find it difficult to fully realize or understand the
state of stupor and amazement which ensued in this country on the first
tidings of that event; seeing, as it may be said, that the victims had
lain for weeks under sentence of death, to be executed on this date. Yet
surprise indubitably was the first and most overpowering emotion; for,
in truth, no one up to that hour had really credited that England would
take the lives of those three men on a verdict already publicly admitted
and proclaimed to have been a blunder.
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