CELT document E850004-013

A Nation Once Again

Thomas Osborne Davis

Edited by T. W. Rolleston

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     p.305

    A Nation Once Again

  1. 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. 1
    And then I prayed I yet might see,
    Our fetters rent in twain,
    And Ireland, long a province, be
    A Nation once again.
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

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Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

Editor: T. W. Rolleston

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Date: 2011

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  • First published in the Nation.

Other writings by Thomas Davis

  1. Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914.
  2. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (ed.), Thomas Davis, the memoirs of an Irish patriot, 1840-1846. 1890. [Reprinted entitled 'Thomas Davis' with an introduction of Brendan Clifford. Millstreet, Aubane Historical Society, 2000.]
  3. Thomas Davis: selections from his prose and poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston. London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin (Every Irishman's Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press, 1914.]
  4. Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
  5. Essays of Thomas Davis. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W. Tempest, Dundalk, Ireland, under the title 'Essays literary and historical'.]
  6. Thomas Davis: essays and poems, with a centenary memoir, 1845-1945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. [Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.]
  7. Angela Clifford, Godless colleges and mixed education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast: Athol, 1992.

Davis, Thomas Osborne (1910). ‘A Nation Once Again’. In: Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry‍. Ed. by T. W. Rolleston. Dublin and London: The Talbot Press, pp. 305–306.

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Creation: by Thomas Davis

Date: 1840s

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