 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction New Series VOL.IV - 1843 - 458 pages
...are wretchedly poor, but others are written with much ability. Of the latter we add specimens: — The work that should to-day be wrought Defer not till...at once what is to do, And trust ourselves alone. Too long our Irish hearts we schooled, In patient hope to bide ; By dreams of English justice fooled,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 714 pages
...is not much in harmony with Mr. O'Connell's pledges to British connexion : — ' OURSELVES ALONE. 1 The work that should to-day be wrought Defer not till...at once what is to do, And trust OURSELVES ALONE. Too long our Irish hearts we schooled, In patient hope to bide ; By dreams of English justice fooled,... | |
 | Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Davis - Ballads, English - 1845 - 364 pages
...- gle ? coUaporle. i m§ OUR - SELVES A --- LONE. £^M=J 3—M—_• I im 3&E OURSELVES ALONE. I. THE work that should to-day be wrought Defer not till...be sought, Scorn from without to borrow. Old maxims these—yet stout and true— They speak in trumpet tone, To do at once what is to do, And trust OURSELVES... | |
 | Commerce - 1857 - 808 pages
...permanent and durable form of a magazine, such articles will reach a larger class of readers : — • " The work that should to-day be wrought, Defer not...sought, Scorn from without to borrow ; Old maxims these, but stern and true, They speak with trumpet tono ; To do, at once, what Is to do. And trust ourselves... | |
 | Spirit - 1861 - 224 pages
...Island shore, For those who send the Saxon Shilling OURSELVES ALONE. L THE work that should to-day he wrought Defer not till to-morrow ; The help that should...— They speak in trumpet tone, To do at once what U to do, And trust OURSELvES / < OMK. • n. Too long our Irish hearts wo school'd, In patient hope... | |
 | John Martin - France - 1861 - 52 pages
...sentiment than that which is conveyed in the words, " IBELAND FOB THE IRISH ! !" " OOBSELVES ALONE !" " The work that should to-day be wrought Defer not till...borrow ! Old maxims these — yet stout and true— , _ . They speak in trumpet tone, — , . To do at once what is to do, And trust OURSELVES ALONE !'... | |
 | Calcutta univ - 1876 - 154 pages
...some homely lines of a kind calculated to remain in one's memory, and to remind us of our duties — The work that should to-day be wrought Defer not till...Old maxims these, yet stout and true ; They speak with trumpet tone — To do whatever is to do, And trust yourselves alone. " So doing, you shall be... | |
 | Sir Charles Gavan Duffy - Ireland - 1880 - 802 pages
...were replaced by genuine passion, or sometimes by the studiously simple rhetoric of good sense : " The work that should to-day be wrought, defer not...at once what is to do, and trust Ourselves Alone." * While these dangerous novelties excited the alarm of the Irish Government, and the wrath of the Tory... | |
 | Alfred Mason Williams - English poetry - 1881 - 470 pages
...every vow ; Forever dear as now ; Queen of my heart be thou, My colleen rhu.* OURSELVES ALONE. ANON. THE work that should to-day be wrought, Defer not...at once what is to do, And trust ourselves alone. Too long our Irish hearts we schooled, In patient hope to bide ; By dreams of English justice fooled,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1892 - 1046 pages
...the state of the Army. It will obtrude and force its way. It must be bravely faced by Parliament. • The work that should to-day be wrought Defer not till...at once what is to do, And trust ourselves alone." *DB. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.) : I suppose the most pressing question we have to consider at... | |
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THE work that should to-day be wrought, Defer not till to-morrow ; The help that should within be sought, Scorn from without to borrow Old maxims these — yet stout and true—- They speak in trumpet tone, To do at once what is to do, And trust OURSELVES... 
