Songs of the Celt (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Songs of the Celt (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Cashel Connolly and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Songs of the Celt Songs of the Celt. Song Of The Exiled Harp. Baptistery of faith, my native isle! Fond I vision of thee, and, the while, The verb of being, with glad impulse, Wakes the Sabbath throb of memory, And I joy in sweetest revery; With feeling heart and bounding pulse, I sing of thee, and from the vast Of silence, where the mouldering past Lies tombed beneath succeeding years, I will recall, through memory's spell, The joys that were, and hopes that fell Beyond the brink, where death appears Long mourned and sanctified in tears. I. Far down the vale of cancelled ages, Where, coffined, rest the chief and sages Of Erin's early days of fame, - 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.