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 ballads some years ago, but now they are like extinct volcanoes, their day is over, and there is no demand for them. Even the best of them, A million a Decade, and another, with the refrain, Lov'd, Ireland, are difficult to find. A verse from The Famine Year is worth giving: —

A deep tone of feeling is touched in the poem of Related Souls—

&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;Without human aidance I cross the river of Life and Fate, &emsp;Wake me no more with that voice whose cadence Could lure me back from the Golden Gate, For my spirit would answer your spirit's call, Though life lay hid where the shadows fall; And the mystic joys of the world unseen Would be less to me, than the days that have been.