 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...  The Monitor - Side 3161879Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1902 - 642 sider
...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.' And there ia an Irish charm and music about John Casey's rebel poem, ' The Rising of... | |
 | Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Davis - 1845 - 364 sider
...surviv'd, 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. THE VOW OF TIPPEKARY. BY THOMAS DAVIS. AlR—" Tipperary."* I. FROM Carrick streets... | |
 | Thomas Osborne Davis - 1870 - 264 sider
...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 BrigadeFONTENOY.* 1745. X. THKICE, at the huts of Fontenoy, the English column failed, And, twice,... | |
 | Thomas Davis - 1854 - 268 sider
...survived, fought and drank as of yore, But the land of then- 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. FONTENOY.* (1745.) L THKICE, at the huts of Fontenoy, the English column failed, And,... | |
 | Thomas Davis - 1857 - 274 sider
...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. FONTENOY.* (l745.) I. T MHKJK, at the huts of Foutaioy, the English column failed, And.... | |
 | James Grant - 1859 - 604 sider
...survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more ; For on far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade, Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the IRISH BRIGADE ! " Under the happier influences of the present time, our people are no longer forced... | |
 | 892 sider
...Flanders and elsewhere! Well and truly has poor Davis epitomized the history of the " Wild Geese :" — in far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade, Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade." To rescue from oblivion even one record of our countrymen — one relic, it may be,... | |
 | Spirit - 1861 - 224 sider
...surviv'd, 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 Bri'ade. THE SONGS OF THE NATION. BY EDWARD WALSH. I. Yi: songs that resound in t!io homes of... | |
 | Thomas Nicolas Burke - 1872 - 646 sider
...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." Nor is the Irishman of to-day—whether a voluntary or an involuntary exile from the... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - 1873 - 414 sider
...Austrian service many Irishmen had risen to great and deserved distinction, and he could not forget that " In far foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade, Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade." A copy of Mr. Lanigan's inaugural address on accepting the chair of Hebrew and Sacred... | |
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