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Excerpt from Six Months Ago, or the Eventful Friday and Its Consequences: An Epic Poem And saw the blue smoke curl from 'their own hearths, And wend its-way to heaven, and mingle with The soft blue there, an offering to God. They knew themselves the Owners of the soil, ' Entailed by those who bought it with their blood, And they were not. Afraid. But there were those Near them, but not of them, in whose vile hearts. The fellest passions reign, who stood aloof, Each looking on his fellow with a scowl That would have graced the dark Appolyon And ever and anon they struck their breasts, Bursting with ire and hate, and all the black And damning feelings of the man of Such feelings must have vent! They come. They come! The slot-hounds of the Pope rush on their prey, Scatter the advocates of Native Rights, And tearing from its staff our blood-bought ag, Trample and rend each brilliant star and stripe, And mar its texture with their rabid slime. And these were they, who, leaving their Own land, Made desolate by their intolerance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.