ONE thing we praise you for that is past praise — <br />The dauntless eyes that faced the rain and night, <br />The hand that never wearied in the fight, <br />Till, through the dark's despair, the dawn's delays, <br />It rose, that vision of forgotten days, <br />Ireland, a Nation in her right and might, <br />As fearless of the lightning as the Light, — <br />Freedom, the noon-tide sun that shines and stays! <br />O brave, O pure, O hater of the wrong, <br />(The wrong that is as one with England's name, <br />Tyranny with cant of liberty, and shame <br />With boast of righteousness), to you belong <br />Trust for the hate that blinds our foes like flame, <br />Love for the hope that makes our hearts so strong!<br /><br />Francis William Lauderdale Adams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-charles-parnell/
