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TO ETHNA. oh ae]

[The following beavtiful lyric is extracted -from volume of Poems, Zallade, and Lyrics, larely jeeved from the Dublin Press, by D. F. M‘Cantar.} :°

First joved, net be bape, best loved of iene !—

Fthoa, my boyhood’s dream, my ma g light,—

pie spicit, in whose light I’ve cae

Full many « year, along jife’s darksome night!

Thou wert my star eproneny. Eeaming bright

Beyond youth's passing clouds and mists obscure ;

Thou wert the power that-kept my spirit white,.. . -

My soul unsoiled, my heart untouched and pure. Thine ms the light from Heaven that ever: must

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, Sot Sivek Purest, and best, and brightest, no mishap, © ‘ \ Nothatice, or change can break our mutual! ties; ~~ .- My heart lies spread before thee like amapy. >.* - Here roil the tides, and there the mountains rise; 4 Here dangers frown and there hope’s streamlet flies, And ee promon tories cleave the main:

And I have looked into thy lustrious eyes, /* And saw the thought thou couldst not al! restrain,

“id Sweet soft sympathetic pity for my pain!

Dearest and best, I dedicate to thee,

From this hour forth, my hopes, my dreams, my cares, ;

Ali that I am, and all I e’er may be,—

Youth's clustering locks, and age’s thin white hairs;

Thou by my side, fair vision, unawares—

Sweet saint—shall guard me as with angel’s wings ;

To thee shalt rise the morning’s hopeful pray ers,

The rane hymns, the thoughts that midnight

rings,

The worship that like fire out of the worn heart springs.

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Thou wilt be with me through the struggling day, Thou wilt be with me through the pensive night, Thou wiltbe with me, though far, far away Some sad mischance may snap you from my sight. In grief, in pain, in gladness, in delight, In every thought thy form shail bear a part— Io every dream thy memory ehall unite, Bride of my soul! and partner of my heart !

Till from the fatal bow flieth the fatal dart!

Am I deceived? and do [ pine and faint For worth that only dwells in Heaven above ? Ah! if thou’rt not the Ethna that I paint, Then thou art not the Ethna that I love; If thou art not as gentle as the dove, And good aa thou art beautiful, the tooth Of venomed serpents wil! not deadlier prove Than the dark revelation; but, in sooth, Ethna, | wrong thee, dearest, for thy name is Troru.

‘SELECT TALE.

From Blackwood’s Magazine for February, 1850,

The Siege of Dunheg; or, the Stratagems of War.

(Continued from last No.)

Next morning brought with it an important arrival. Sir Phelim O'Neill, attended by a train of considerable eplendour, had joined his associates in rebellion, on his way to Banagher; and when O’Dempsey and Cormack descended from the turret in which they slept, to mount for their intended journey, they found the court-yard filled with the retinue of the northern chief. Cormack had never before beheld such rude magnificence as was displayed in the arms, the trappings, and genera! equip- ment of this proud, able chieftain’s train ; and the wav- ing of plumes and banners, and flashing of gilded armour and embroidered-horse furniture, joined to the orestige of the name of the great O'Neill, inspired him with a fuller consciousness than he had yet felt of the vast importance to which his own chiefhad attained, by being admitted, on terms of equality, inte such a con- federacy, and raised in his breast such a lively anxiety lest his clan should not be adequately represented ia the Colonel’s first interview with the great visitor, that he could not tear himself away until he had seen the abject of his solicitude not enly presented to, but cordially embraced by, this great and terrible leader.

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heatd of'your honourable undertaking to open the pass at \Dunbeg, I altered tig footes and will be teal Colonel Dempsey, to givé : ompany so far, the-

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ivé- you the escort of m n after to-morrow. It will shorten my route by.two'days at least; for, as I under. | }stand you have heavy.,batterfng cannon to bring against the churl, I sup he will not hold out more than a fartests so, that,} can have the pleasure of asgisting : at: Seley. siege there be, and after- wards the advantage of marching through the open | fom Captain Cormack did not wait to ear his Colonel's reply—well knowing that O’ Dempsey could ht réfu e the offer of so great a man’s company ; -and, feeling the honour of the clan depended on his own i | his horse, and in an agony of 7 Dunmore, \ é | pledwed:to it now,” he would say, as he spurred on, regardless of the rain, which had been all ay Bcending. “ Tete sis pledged ; the honour of thé*naine is at stake, ahd rhe be degraded, if the clan oo at and despised; as we will be if we cannot take.thig rascal castle, by fair means or by foul, before Sunday next, it will all be my own blame—all will be the fault of my own folly and presumption. And O’Dempsey, my own foster-brother, } too !\—to think of seeing my ‘natural-born chief and kinsman brought to disgrace! By St. Patrick’s staif! it must not be. If men and horses can do the work it shall not be! Though I harness myself to the work like a cart-horse, I will have itdone. Though I bridge the bog with my own carcass, [ will have every cursed gan of them on the Craggan meadows before to-morrow morping.” .

He accordingly lost no time, on arriving late. that evening at Dunmore, in summoning to the castle work- shop James of the chisel and Thomas of the tongs. To each he gave his special instruction; and thenceforth, till near the dawn of the next.day,.the.axe and the auger, the saw and the hammer, were in busy requisi- tion throughout every shed and oiithouse of Dunmore. At about two hours from dawn; James’ of the chisel awakened his captain from a hurried slumber, to say that his orders were executed. | “Wheels, carriages, and all complete—painted and mounted ?” demanded Cormack.

“ All so complete, captain, that, unless you laid your hand upon them, you would herdly know which was the iron and which the wooden gun; only that the wooden | ones are somewhat wider in the bore, and jJarger; for the pump that we cut into lengths for the barrels is all through as thick as the breach of atwelve-pounder, and we had not time to chip it down.”

* Good, Shamus; they will do very well at the dis- tance: they are only intended to prevent the churl’s suspicions, should he see our walls without their usual] artillery. Have you trained down the real guns off their platforms ?”

“ We have, Captain avick ; and we have also mounted sham cannon in their places, al] as directed.”

“ Then, under God, we’ll try the passage of the bog at once. If we wait for to-morrow night, the rains will have made it a hopeless effort; and, by my hand! with the torrent pouring out of the sky, it is almost a despe- rate one as it is. But come, you are still in time to make the attempt before daylight: if we succeed in getting them across, we will hide them in the copse on the edge of the bog, with a sufficient guard, until O’- Neill and O’Dempsey arrive. If we find that we cannot get them over, why, we must only turn back and wait for better times.” So saying, he put himself at the head of » chosen body of the garrison, who awaited him at the court-yard with ropes and tackling ready to execute his further orders. A gang of twelve men being allotted to each gun, the pieces of cannon, four in number, were slowly and quietly dragged out of the fortress, along the grass-grown causeway that skirted the bog, to the distance of about a quarter of a mile, Here the morass was narrower and firmer than between the castles, but still presented a wide, and apparently insuperabje obstacle to the farther progress of heavy carriages. Cormack’s forethought had, however, pro- vided the means of making the attempt to the greatest advantage. At the point where it was proposed that they should enter on the soft ground, a quantity of timber, felled:that evening in the adjacent wood, was deposited. The trees were. cleared of their branches, and cut of an even length, so that, when Inid side by side on the surface of the morass, they formed a sort of planked causeway, exteading about tea vards into the

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bog like a broad pier projecting into the sea. On this the guns were dra ved m succession and ranged abreast, 80 that, when drawn up at the extremity, they occupied only the former half of the ae ving the timbers of the remainder to be lifted from their

poor | beds behind, and again laid down in front: this being

done, the guns were shifted forward another five yarda, and the portion first occupied now furnished the materials of a fresh stage now further on. Thus, ‘by successive transfers an ee saan the cannon destined to batter the walls of Dunbeg gradually gained the centre of the morass, which had hitherto been con- sidered that castle’s chiefest defence. But the shifting floor on which they rested had now more the appear- ance of a raft at sea than of a planked eatiseway con- structed on land; for at each succeeding stage of its advance, the timbers inclined more and more from the level, now sinking to the right, and again to the left, as the inequalites of the surface, and the varying degrees of the consistency of the morass, yielded to or résiited the pressure in different degrees, ‘The plashy expanse around, too, was now so saturated with rain, that the torrents, which still continued to descend from the sky; no longer soaked into the spongy soil, but lay in poois, or overspread the level surface like a shallow lake: add to this the pitthy darkness and the violence of the winter wind dashing the showers in their faces, and it may easily be supposed that it required all the confi- dence of the men in their captain’s courage and resources, and all Cormack Oge’s conviction of the necessity for perseverance and eéxeftion on his own part, to keép these adventurous navigators of the fen, if they can so be called, from fainting at their severe and incessant Jabour. Still the design was so bold and in- genious, the means so sitnple, and hitherto the success s0 core that feelings of congratulation and pride more than counterbalanced the ‘pain of fatigtie and the dread of failure; and the Abt although work- ing up to their middles in mud and water, could scarcely be refrained from breaking through the meces- sary alee with jests and cries of encoutagemeént at every lift of a heavier tog oF longer pull ‘at the ropes

ged their cannon forwatd—* Lift er,

by which they drag x my sons! lift together,” 1 shoulder is the coffin of a chur.”

“ By the bog! then, that has the best part of offe ia mourning for him,” another ‘would reply, “he@ a weighty corpse that is in the same coffin; and he’d need to be a near friend of my own, ¥ can tell you, Shawn acushla, to get me to be one of his bearers from this to Kilmeilar.”

“He's a heart of oak, anyhow, boys, and deserved a decent burying.”

“ Dar m’anim, 80 you may well say, Thady; end if he likes a deep grave, he can have it to his Satisfac- tion: the bog here is as soft as the bottom of the cream- crock,”

“Use your legs for churnstaffs, then, Nocter dear, and see if you won't get your brogues ful! of butter.”

“Och, Thady darling, I’m afraid thet unlucky eye of yours has spoiled the churning.”

“ By the hand of my body! Nocher M‘Daniel, if it wasn’t that I’ve this lump ofa cran on my ehoulder— and you to cast up my eye to me.”

“ Aboo ! keep silence,” interrupted Cormack; “ the chur!’s sentinels are within less than half-a-mile of us: Keep the floor level, mo f’oga, or the guns will slide off.”

“Tt won't stay level, Captain; the gun at this side has slipped twice, and it is as much as we can do to keep it from going over,” replied one of the men, in voice of suppressed alarm.

“ Make haste, with fresh timber,” cried a voice at the same moment from the front, “the stage hae sunk a foot.”

“Hold on by the guns, boys,” exclaimed Cormack, “Jash them together, carriage to carmege; we must save the guns, though we prup the platform with our shoulders.”

“Captain! Captain! we can hold on no longer,” cried the first speaker; and immediately after was heard the rush of the piece of cannon as it slid off the stage, in spite of the struggles ofa dozen mem to detein it: the quagmire received its prey with a sluggish gulp, and the gun with its carriage disappeared almost instantly. (To be continued.)

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