<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tis Gone, And For Ever</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking, <br>Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the dead -- <br>When Man, from the slumber of ages awaking, <br>Look'd upward, and bless'd the pure ray, ere it fled. <br>'Tis gone, and the gleams it has left of its burning, <br>But deepen the long night of bondage and mourning, <br>That dark o'er the kingdoms of earth is returning, <br>And darkest of all, hapless Erin, o'er thee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For high was thy hope, when those glories were darting <br>Around thee, through all the gross clouds of the world; <br>When Truth, from her letters indignantly starting, <br>At once, like a sun-burst, her banner unfurl'd.<br>Oh! never shall earth see a moment so splendid! <br>Then, then -- had one Hymn of Deliverance blended <br>The tongues of all nations -- how sweet had ascended <br>The first note of liberty , Erin, from thee! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, shame on those tyrants who envied the blessing! <br>And shame on the light race, unworthy its good, <br>Who, at Death's reeking altar, like furies, caressing <br>The young hope of Freedom, baptised it in blood. <br>Then vanish'd for ever that fair sunny vision, <br>Which, spite of the slavish, the cold heart's derision, <br>Shall long be remember'd, pure, bright, and elysian, <br>As first it arose, my lost Erin, on thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Moore">Thomas Moore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=530054" data-title="Tis Gone, And For Ever de Thomas Moore" data-description="'Tis gone, and for ever, the light we saw breaking, Like Heaven's first dawn o'er the sleep of the dead -- When Man, from the slumber of ages awaking, Look'd upward, and bless'd the pure ray, ere it fled. 'Tis gone, and the gleams it has left ..."></div> </div> </div>

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