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Title: War Song Author: Thomas Moore [More Titles by Moore] REMEMBER THE GLORIES OF BRIEN THE BRAVE.[1]
Mononia! when Nature embellished the tint Forget not our wounded companions, who stood[4]
[2] Munster. [3] The palace of Brien. [4] This alludes to an interesting circumstance related of the Dalgais, the favorite troops of Brien, when they were interrupted in their return from the battle of Clontarf, by Fitzpatrick, prince of Ossory. The wounded men entreated that they might be allowed to fight with the rest,--"_Let stakes_[they said] _be stuck in the ground, and suffer each of us to be tied to and supported by one of these stakes, to be placed in his rank by the side of a sound man_." "Between seven and eight hundred men (adds O'Halloran) pale, emaciated, and supported in this manner, appeared mixed with the foremost of the troops;--never was such another sight exhibited."--_"History of Ireland_," book xii. chap i. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |