There Is Lasting Kindness In Heaven When

It Is Not Always Them That Has The Most That Makes The Most Show.

If The Past Year Were Offered Me Again, And Choice Of Good And Ill Before Me Set Would I Accept The Pleasure With The Pain Or Dare To Wish That We Had Never Met?

Once In My Childhood I Had Been Eager To Learn Irish; I Thought To Get Leave To Take Lessons From An Old Scripture-reader Who Spent A Part Of His Time In The Parish Of Killinane, Teaching Such Scholars As He Could Find To Read Their Own Language In The Hope That They Might Turn To The Only Book Then Being Printed In Irish, The Bible.

From The Sons Of Ith, The First Of The Gael To Get His Death In Ireland, There Came In The After Time Fathadh Canaan, That Got The Sway Over The Whole World From The Rising To The Setting Sun, And That Took Hostages Of The Streams And The Birds And The Languages.

It Is Better To Be Tied To Any Thorny Bush Than To Be With A Cross Man.