CELT document E850004-022

The Battle Eve of the Brigade

Thomas Osborne Davis

Edited by T. W. Rolleston

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     p.327

    The Battle Eve of the Brigade

    Air: Contented I am

  1. The mess-tent is full, and the glasses are set,
    And the gallant Count Thomond is president yet;
    The veteran stands, like an uplifted lance,
    Crying—"Comrades, a health to the monarch of France!"
    With bumpers and cheers they have done as he bade,
    For King Louis is loved by the Irish Brigade.
  2. "A health to King James," and they bent as they quaffed,
    "Here's to George the Elector," and fiercely they laughed,
    "Good luck to the girls we wooed long ago,
    Where Shannon and Barrow and Blackwater flow;"
    "God prosper Old Ireland,"—you'd think them afraid,
    So pale grew the chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
  3. "But, surely, that light cannot come from our lamp,
    And that noise—are they all getting drunk in the camp?"
    "Hurrah! boys, the morning of battle is come,
    And the génerale's beating on many a drum."
    So they rush from the revel to join the parade:
    For the van is the right of the Irish Brigade.
  4. They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true,
    And, though victors, they left on the field not a few;
    And they who survived fought and drank as of yore,
    But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more;
    For in far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade,
    Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

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Title (uniform): The Battle Eve of the Brigade

Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

Editor: T. W. Rolleston

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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). ‘The Battle Eve of the Brigade’. In: Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry‍. Ed. by T. W. Rolleston. Dublin and London: The Talbot Press, p. 327.

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Creation: by Thomas Davis

Date: 1840s

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