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BELFAST, 2ND OCTOBER, 1896.
PRICE ‘Twopaxcn.
An Souls’ Night.
In a graveyard lone
VVaz'lellz a young maid,
W 2'17; lzeart-fz'ercz'7zg moan
Calling on lzer dead.
“ Mom and noon and even, heavy my hours creep,
In your happy heaven do you know I weep?
All Souls’ Night is here, every spirit is free,
Leave ’God’s House of Cheer, travel home to me.
I Tell the great Saint Peter “All Souls’ Night is come,”
Though his heaven be sweeter, you will fare to home.
. Beiyour journey swift, I am waiting, blind;
You, my light, shall lift the dark from my mind.
Stay you not, nor hold, for the angels light,
Leave the Virgins, stoled, all in milken white.
. Leave the multitude shining as the sun,
Leave the Place of Good, the House of Benison.
Pass by every star, gold winged as a seraph,
Moons that ‘brightest are, shun the tempting thereof.
Ah! for sake of Christ bid Peter ope the gate!
‘ Keep your promised tryst : I your true love, wait.
Damp the nightswind is, while the dim hours pass
Rain hath a serpent’s hiss ‘in the graveyard grass.
Every bough doth grieve, swaying in the gloom,
,Every' ghost doth leave every mouldering tomb.
Greyly flits and goes like a wandering mist
When the rain-wind blows as its will cloth list.
Oh! I fear these things, and mine ears do hark,
' Rustle of phantom wings passing in the dark.
But come you, even as these, heart of me, my own !
Ah! my poor lips freeze, kissing your grave stone.”
Carl’-croiw and red dawn,
‘ T lie maid’: deazlfare is grey: i-
All Souls’ 1Vz;glzt 13‘ gone,
All Saints smile to day.
' ALICE FURLONG.
GUARD IRELAND’S i1oNoiJR. Q
“For freedom comes from‘ God’s right hand, . i
And needs a godly train; ’ ' i i '
And righteous men shall makeour land
A Nation once again.”,-5 .. ' ‘
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matter are not yetbefore‘ ,the'public, we
do not in our newsvcolumns say a word
of the baseless assertion that it ‘was aimed at,the life, of
the Czar; but of dynamite methods gfenerallyit is a
fitting time to speak out ‘plainly’ and tstlroiiglyr LVVe
publish what has already been said by the President’ of
the Amnesty Association in Lo'ndon,iand‘ by John Daly
on his return to Ireland.‘ Daly“ has-endured ‘thirteen
years of penal servitude in Brit-ishi'dung’e'ons, buthe has
suffered besides that tliefimputation of beingla dynal
miter. The tone of his speeches carry conviction with
them that he found that accusation harder to bear‘than
the load of a felon’s chain; He has declaredin no equi--
vocal words his scorn of Anarchical methods; ,and more
than any man living he can help to sustain a wholesome
expression of public opinion on the subject. . I ‘
XVe believe for our part that the feeling of thecountry
on the subject is entirely abhorent,‘an,d that it is every-
where recognized that those who would stoop to suggest,
or organise, or carry out anything-of the sort, degrade .
the name and fame of-their country, and in the eyes of, '
the whole world render her. less worthy of Nationhood.
Ireland’s cause is high and holyi when Irishmen cease
to regard it as so, the faith which has sustained the strife
of ages will perish and she will sinkvinto hopeless bondage.
XVe are fond of finishing off announcements of our,
National gatherings with the martyrs‘ prayer of “God
Save Ireland," and we must see to it that the devil is not
enlisted as chief auxiliary to V realise that salvation.
Stern and terrible deeds are often done and may justly
be done in such a strife as ours; but this method of bomb- ‘
throwing and blowing up‘ buildingswithout aim orreason
other than meresdesirev of wvengance is - imbecile and
, wrong.
‘S the evidence and facts concerning the‘
about the dynamite plotvor of-those accused ‘ i
of complicity in it, further: than to dispose i