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 by Thomas Davis 1840s The text is in English. literary poetry 19c 2011-08-08 Beatrix Färber ed. File parsed. SGML and HTML files created. 2011-08-07 Beatrix Färber ed. File proofed (2), structural and content markup applied; header created. 2009-11 Beatrix Färber ed. File proofed (1). 1996 Audrey Murphy ed. Text captured by scanning. A Nation Once Again When boyhood's fire was in my blood, I read of ancient freemen, For Greece and Rome who bravely stood, Three hundred men and three men.The three hundred Greeks who died at the Thermopylae, and the three Romans who kept the Sublician bridge. And then I prayed I yet might see, Our fetters rent in twain, And Ireland, long a province, be A Nation once again. And from that time, through wildest woe, That hope has shone, a far light; Nor could love's brightest summer glow Outshine that solemn starlight: It seemed to watch above my head In forum, field and fane; Its angel voice sang round my bed, A Nation once again. It whispered, too, that Freedom's ark And service high and holy, Would be profaned by feelings dark And passions vain or lowly: For freedom comes from God's right hand, And needs a godly train: And righteous men must make our land A Nation once again. So, as I grew from boy to man, I bent me to that bidding— My spirit of each selfish plan And cruel passion riding; For, thus I hoped some day to aid— Oh! can such hope be in vain? When my dear country shall be made A Nation once again.