| American essays - 1866 - 976 pages
...those characteristics is to be laid at the door of English tyranny and jealousy. When Moore wrote, "Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her, When Malachi wore the collar of gold Which he won from hor proud invader, " When her kings with their standards... | |
| Frances Power Cobbe - Essays and short stories reprinted from various periodicals - 1867 - 294 pages
...those characteristics is to be laid at the door of English tyranny and jealousy. When Moore wrote, " Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her, When Malachi wore the collar of gold Which he won from her proud invader, "When her kings, with their standards... | |
| Samuel M. Kennedy - 1867 - 530 pages
...men, marching to that air 1' " The words afterward set to that air by Moore, are the following : " Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her ; When Malachi wore the collar of gold Which he won from her proud invader, When her kings with standard of... | |
| Maghtochair (pseud.) - 1867 - 220 pages
...were the same mime. This entry was the subject •which gave rise to Moore's famous ballad : — " Lot Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her. When Malachi wore the collar of gold, Which he \von from the proud invader." In the year 999 \ve find Brian... | |
| Alexander Martin Sullivan - Ireland - 1868 - 310 pages
...green island. These historical records must have been present to the mind of Moore when he writes : " Let Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless...collar of gold Which he won from the proud invader." The harp was quartered with the arms of Ireland by Henry VIII., and in the office of the Garter King-at-Arms,... | |
| Francis William Newman - 1868 - 226 pages
...DAYS OF OLD. 1. LET Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betray'd her ; When Malachi wore the collar of gold, Which he won from the proud invader. When her kings, with standard of green unfurl'd. Led the Bed Branch* knights to danger, Ere the emerald... | |
| Thomas Moore - Ireland - 1869 - 222 pages
...above, Which alone can remove That stain upon the snow of fair Eveleen's fame. LET ERIN REMEMBER. T ET Erin remember the days of old, -^ Ere her faithless sons betrayed her ; When Malachi wore the collar of gold,* Which he won from her proud invader. When her kings, with standard... | |
| College student newspapers and periodicals - 1883 - 252 pages
...sought for gems, it drew inspiration from the Golconda of antiquity. Well may we say with the bard: "Let Erin remember the days of old. Ere her faithless sons betrayed her. When Malachi wore the collar of gold, He won from the proud invader." The rich beauty of Ireland's natural... | |
| Henry William Dulcken - 1870 - 236 pages
...firmament, The boundless visible smile of Him, To the veil of whose brow our lamps are dim. BRYANT. ET Erin remember the days of old, Ere her faithless sons betrayed her ; When Malachi wore the collar of gold Which he won from her proud invader ; When her kings, with standard... | |
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