An Address Delivered Before the Hibernian Society of the City of Savannah On the Festival of St. Patrick
The book An Address Delivered Before the Hibernian Society of the City of Savannah On the Festival of St. Patrick was written by author Habersham, Richard Wylly, 1786-1842. [from Old Catalog] Here you can read free online of An Address Delivered Before the Hibernian Society of the City of Savannah On the Festival of St. Patrick book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Address Delivered Before the Hibernian Society of the City of Savannah On the Festival of St. Patrick a good or bad book?
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The fields of his infant sports, the mountain and the lake which first delighted his eye and quickened his fancy into life, the smoke from his native cottage slowly curling upon the evening sky, and the voices of his early friends mingling in the vesper-chaunt and swelling into melody amidi^t the tombs of his fathers, standing in their deathly stillness— how sad, how sweet, liow sacred, how solemn are these recollec- tions: how much more sad and sacred when you feel that they are the recollecti...ons of scenes, which few of you can ever again hope to revisit But there are other recollections which are even more painful than these. The recollections of the emotiojis with which you parted from those scenes of joiir first affeciloiis: the last grasp of the friend —the last look of love— tlie last embrace —and tlie last farewell ! __ _-0h ! "'Tis a sad sound,— that lingering last farewell « When friends must separte— perhaps forever. But ye poor exiles of Eriii^ even in those .try- iiig moments ye had your consolations: yes, ye had the sweet consolation of that relig;ion which your beloved saint gave to your fathers: and ye had the consolation of feeling that you were going to a land where tliat religion could be enjoyed in peaee antl in safety.
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