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A Voice of Encouragement—A New Year's Lay

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James Clarence Mangan

Edited by D. J. O'Donoghue

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    A Voice of Encouragement—A New Year's Lay

  1. Youths! Compatriots! Friends! Men for the time that is nearing!
    Spirits appointed by Heaven to front the storm and the trouble!
    You, who in seasons of peril, unfaltering still and unfearing,
    Calmly have held on your course, the course of the Just and the Noble!
    You, young men, would a man unworthy to rank in your number,
    Yet with a heart that bleeds for his country's wrongs and affliction,
    Fain raise a voice to, in song, albeit his music and diction
    Rather be fitted, alas! to lull to, than startle from, slumber.
  2. Friends! the gloom in our land, in our once bright land, grows deeper.
    Suffering, even to death, in its horriblest forms, aboundeth;
    Thro' our black harvestless fields, the peasants' faint wail resoundeth.
    Hark to it, even now! … The nightmare oppressèd sleeper
    Gasping and struggling for life, beneath his hideous bestrider,
    Sëeth not, drëeth not, sight or terror more fearful or ghastly
    Than that poor paralysed slave! Want, Houselessness, Famine, and lastly
    Death in a thousand-corpsed grave, that momently waxeth wider.
  3. Worse! The great heart of the country is thrilled and throbbeth but faintly! p.101
    Apathy palsieth here—and there, a panic misgiving:
    Even the Trustful and Firm, even the Sage and the Saintly,
    Seem to believe that the Dead but foreshow the doom of the Living.
    Men of the faithfullest souls all but broken-hearted
    O'er the dishonoured tombs of the glorious dreams that have perished—
    Dreams that almost outshone Realities while they were cherished—
    All, they exclaim, is gone! The Vision and Hope have departed!
  4. Worst and saddest! As under Milton's lowermost Tophet
    Yawned another yet lower 1 , so for the mourning Million
    Still is there deeper woe! Patriot, Orator, Prophet,
    Some who a few years agone stood proudly in the Pavilion
    Of their land's rights and liberties, gazing abroad thro' its casement
    On the fair Future they fondly deemed at hand for their nation,
    Now not alone succumb to the change and the Degradation,
    But have ceased even to feel them! God! this indeed is abasement!
  5. Is the last hope then gone? Must we lie down despairing?
    No! there is always hope for all who will dare and suffer;
    Hope for all who surmount the Hill of Exertion, uncaring
    Whether their path be brighter or darker, smoother or rougher;
    No! there is always hope for those who, relying with earnest
    Souls on God and themselves, take for their motto, “Labour”. p.102
    Such see the rainbow's glory where Heaven looms darkest and sternest;
    Such in the storm-wind hear but the music of pipe and tabor.
  6. Follow your destiny up! Work! Write! Preach to arouse and
    Warn, and watch, and encourage! Dangers, no doubt, surround you—
    But for Ten threatening you now, you will soon be appalled by a Thousand
    If you forsake the course to which Virtue and Honour have bound you!
    Oh, persevere! persevere! Falter not!—faint not!—shrink not!
    Hate and Hostility serve but as spurs to the will of the Zealous—
    Tho' your foes flourish awhile, and you seem to decline, be not jealous,
    “Help from the Son of Man cometh in such an hour as you think not!”
  7. Slavery debases the soul; yea! reverses its primal nature;
    Long were our fathers bowed to the earth with fetters of iron—
    And, alas! we inherit the failings and ills that environ
    Slaves like a dungeon wall and dwarf their original stature.
    Look on your countrymen's failings with less of anger than pity;
    Even with the faults of the evil deal in a manner half tender;
    And like an army encamped before a beleaguered city,
    Earlier or later you must compel your foes to surrender!
    8.  p.103
  8. Lo, a new year! A year into whose bosom Time gathers
    All the past lessons of ages—a mournful but truth-teaching muster;
    All the rich thoughts and deeds, and the marvellous lore of our fathers;
    All the sunlike experience that makes men wiser and juster.
    Hail it with steadfast resolve—thankfully, if it befriend you;
    Guardedly, lest it betray—without either Despair or Elation,
    Panoplied inly against the sharpest ills it may send you,
    But with a high hope still for yourselves and the Rise of your Nation.
  9. Omen full, archèd with gloom and laden with many a presage,
    Many a portent of woe, looms the Impending Era
    Not as of old, by comet—sword 2 , Gorgon, or ghastly Chimera,
    Scarcely by lightning and thunder, Heaven to-day sends its message.
    Into the secret heart—down thro' the caves of the spirit,
    Pierces the silent shaft—sinks the invisible token—
    Cloaked in the Hall, the Envoy stands, his mission unspoken,
    While the pale, banquetless guests await in trembling to hear it.

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Title (uniform): A Voice of Encouragement—A New Year's Lay

Author: James Clarence Mangan

Editor: D. J. O'Donoghue

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From the Nation, 1st January 1848.

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Mangan's Works

  1. James Clarence Mangan, Ballad-Poetry of Ireland (Dublin: Duffy 1845).
  2. James Clarence Mangan, Specimens of the early native poetry of Ireland: in English metrical translations by Miss Brooke, Dr. Drummond, Samuel Ferguson, J. C. Mangan, T. Furlong, H. Grattan Curran, E. Walsh, J. D'Alton and J. Anster, with historical and biographical notices by Henry R. Montgomery (Dublin: James McGlashan; London: W.S. Orr and Co. 1846).
  3. James Clarence Mangan, The Book of Irish Ballads, ed. Denis Florence McCarthy (Dublin: J. Duffy 1846).
  4. James Clarence Mangan, Miscellany (Dublin: Celtic Society 1849).
  5. James Clarence Mangan, The poets and poetry of Munster: A selection of Irish songs by poets of the last century, with poetical translations by the late James Clarence Mangan, now for the first time published with the original music and biographical sketches of the authors 1st ed. (Dublin:John O'Daly 1849; Poole, England: Woodstock Books 1997).
  6. James Clarence Mangan, Romances and Ballads of Ireland, ed. Hercules Ellis (Dublin: J. Duffy 1850).
  7. James Clarence Mangan, The tribes of Ireland: a satire by Aenghus O'Daly; with poetical translation by the late James Clarence Mangan; together with an historical account of the family of O'Daly; and an introduction to the history of satire in Ireland by John O'Donovan (Dublin: John O'Daly 1852; Reprint Cork: Tower Books 1976).
  8. James Clarence Mangan, Poems by James Clarence Mangan, with biographical introduction by John Mitchel (New York: Haverty 1859).
  9. James Clarence Mangan, Anthologia Germanica; or a garland from the German poets and miscellaneous poems, 2 vols (Dublin: Duffy 1884).
  10. James Clarence Mangan, Essays in prose and verse by J. Clarence Mangan, ed. Charles P. Meehan. (Dublin: Duffy 1884).
  11. James Clarence Mangan, Irish and Other Poems: With a selection from his translations [The O'Connell Press Popular Library] (Dublin: O'Connell Press 1886).
  12. James Clarence Mangan, James Clarence Mangan, his selected poems; with a study by the editor, ed. Louise Imogen Guiney (London: Lamson, Wolffe & Co. 1897; Montana: Kessinger Publishing Co. 2007).
  13. James Clarence Mangan, Poems of James Clarence Mangan (many hitherto uncollected), ed. with preface and notes by D.J. O'Donoghue; introduction by John Mitchel (Dublin: O'Donoghue, 1903; Reprint New York: Johnson 1972).
  14. James Clarence Mangan, The prose writing of James Clarence Mangan, ed. D.J. O'Donoghue. (Dublin: O'Donoghue 1904).
  15. James Clarence Mangan, Autobiography edited from the manuscript by James Kilroy [Chapel Books Series] (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1968).
  16. James Clarence Mangan, Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan, ed. Michael Smith with a foreword by Anthony Cronin (Dublin: Gallery Press 1973).
  17. James Clarence Mangan, The collected works of James Clarence Mangan: Poems Vol. 1 1818–1837, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1996).
  18. James Clarence Mangan, The collected works of James Clarence Mangan: Poems Vol. 2 1838–1844, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1996).
  19. James Clarence Mangan, The collected works of James Clarence Mangan: Poems Vol. 3 1845–1847, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1997).
  20. James Clarence Mangan, The collected works of James Clarence Mangan: Poems Vol. 4 1848–1912, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1997).
  21. James Clarence Mangan, Anthologia Germanica: Selection on a German Theme from the Verse of the Poet of Young Ireland (Ireland & Germany), ed. with an introduction by Brendan Clifford (London: Athol Books 2001).
  22. James Clarence Mangan, The collected works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose Vol. 1 1832–1839, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002).
  23. James Clarence Mangan, The collected works of James Clarence Mangan: Prose Vol. 2 1840–1882: correspondence, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2002).
  24. James Clarence Mangan, Selected Poems of James Clarence Mangan, foreword by Terence Brown, ed. Jacques Chuto et al. (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, bicentenary ed. 2003).
  25. James Clarence Mangan, Poems, ed. with an introduction by David Wheatley (Oldcastle: Gallery Press 2003).
  26. James Clarence Mangan, Selected Prose of James Clarence Mangan. ed. Jacques Chuto, Peter van de Kamp (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, vicentenary ed. 2004).
  27. James Clarence Mangan, James Clarence Mangan: Selected writings, ed. with an introduction by Sean Ryder (Dublin: University College 2004).

Secondary Literature

  1. W. B. Yeats, 'Clarence Mangan, 1803–1849' [Irish Authors and Poets series]. In: Irish Fireside 12 March 1877; reprinted in John Frayne, Uncollected Prose of W. B Yeats, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan 1970).
  2. W. B. Yeats, 'Clarence Mangan's Love Affair'. In: United Ireland 22 August 1891.
  3. D. J. O'Donoghue, Life and Writings of James Clarence Mangan (Edinburgh: Geddis; Dublin: M. H. Gill 1897).
  4. Ellen Shannon-Mangan, James Clarence Mangan: a biography (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1996).
  5. Henry Edward Cain, James Clarence Mangan and the Poe-Mangan question, A dissertation (Washington: Catholic University Press 1929).
  6. James Joyce, James Clarence Mangan: from St. Stephen's, Dublin, May, 1902 (Dublin: Ulysses Bookshop 1930).
  7. John D. Sheridan, Famous Irish lives: James Clarence Mangan (Dublin: Phoenix Publishing 1937).
  8. P. S. O'Hegarty, 'A bibliography of James Clarence Mangan'. In: Dublin Magazine 16 (1941) 56–61.
  9. Séamus Ó Casaide, 'James Clarence Mangan and his Meath relatives: new light on the poet's circumstances'. In: Father Matthew Record 35:6 (1941) 4–5.
  10. Roibeárd Ó Faracháin, 'James Clarence Mangan'. In: Thomas Davis and Young Ireland, ed. M. J. MacManus (Dublin: The Stationery Office 1945), 61–67.
  11. Marvin Magalaner, 'James Mangan and Joyce's Dedalus family'. In: Philological Quarterly (1952).
  12. Patrick Diskin, 'The poetry of James Clarence Mangan'. In: University Review: A Journal of Irish Studies 2:1 (1960) 21–30.
  13. Rudolf Patrick Holzapfel, James Clarence Mangan: A Check-List Of Printed And Other Sources (Dublin: Scepter Publishing 1969).
  14. Jacques Chuto, 'Mangan's "Antique Deposit" in TCD Library'. In: Long Room 2 (1970) 38–39.
  15. James Kilroy, James Clarence Mangan (Lewisburg, N.J.: Bucknell University Press 1970).
  16. Jacques Chuto, 'Mangan and the "Irus Herfner" articles in the Dublin University Magazine'. In: Hermathena 106 (1971) 55–57.
  17. Henry J. Donaghy, James Clarence Mangan. [English Authors Series] (Macmillan Library Reference, 1974). James Liddy, 'An Introduction to the Poetry of James Mangan'. In: Lace Curtain 5 (1974) 55–56.
  18. John McCall, The life of James Clarence Mangan. (Dublin; T. D. Sullivan 1887; Blackrock: Carraig Books 1975).
  19. Jacques Chuto, 'Mangan, Petrie, O'Donovan and a few others: the poet and the scholars'. In: Irish University Review 6:2 (1976) 169–187.
  20. James Kilroy, 'Bibliography of Mangan'. In: Anglo-Irish Literature: A Review of Research, ed. Richard J. Finneran (New York: Modern Language Association 1976) 43–44.
  21. Robert Welch, ''In wreathed swell': James Clarence Mangan, translator from the Irish'. In: Éire-Ireland 11:2 (1976) 36–56.
  22. Peter MacMahon, 'James Clarence Mangan: the Irish language and the strange case of the tribes of Ireland'. In: Irish University Review 8:2 (1978) 209–222.
  23. Anthony Cronin, 'James Clarence Mangan: The Necessary Maudit'. In: Heritage Now: Irish Literature in the English Language (Dingle: Brandon 1982), 47–50.
  24. David Lloyd, 'Great gaps in Irish song: James Clarence Mangan and the ideology of the nationalist ballad'. In: Irish University Review 14 (1984) 178–190.
  25. Patrick Smith, James Clarence Mangan: the conscious victim. [Unpublished M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, UCC, 1986].
  26. David Lloyd, Nationalism and minor literature: James Clarence Mangan and the emergence of Irish cultural nationalism [The new historicism: studies in cultural poetics, 3]. (Berkeley: California University Press 1987).
  27. Brendan Clifford, The Dubliner: the lives, times and writings of James Clarence Mangan (Belfast: Athol Books 1988).
  28. Ellen Shannon-Mangan, 'New letters from James Clarence Mangan to John O'Donovan'. In: Irish University Review 18 (1988) 207–214.
  29. Sean Ryder, 'Male autobiography and Irish cultural nationalism: John Mitchel and James Clarence Mangan'. In: The Irish Review 13 (1992-93) 70–77.
  30. Jacques Chuto, 'James Clarence Mangan and the Beauty of Hate'. In: Éire-Ireland 30: 2 (1995) 173–81.
  31. Heyward Ehrlich, 'Inventing patrimony: Joyce, Mangan, and the self-inventing self'. In: Joyce through the ages: a nonlinear view, ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie (Gainesville: University Press of Florida 1999).
  32. Jacques Chuto, James Clarence Mangan: a bibliography (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1999).
  33. Anne MacCarthy, James Clarence Mangan, Edward Walsh and Nineteenth-century Irish literature in English [Studies in Irish Literature] (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000).
  34. David Lloyd, 'James Clarence Mangan's Oriental Translations and the Question of Origins'. In: Comparative Literature 38:1 (1986), 20–55.
  35. Dr. Elie Bouhereau, 'Mangan and the worst of woes'. In: Borderlands: essays on literature and medicine in honour of J.B. Lyons, ed. Davis Coakley and Mary O'Doherty (Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2002).
  36. Peter van de Kamp, 'Hands off! Joyce and the Mangan in the Mac'. In: Costerus 147 (2003) 183–214.

Mangan, James Clarence (1967). ‘The Poems of James Clarence Mangan’. In: The Poems of James Clarence Mangan (many hitherto uncollected)‍. Ed. by D.J. O’Donoghue. 31 South Anne Street, Dublin, Ireland: O’Donoghue & Co., pp. 100–103.

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Creation: by James Clarence Mangan

Date: 1847

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