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145 Grattan and Flood and Emmet—where is he
 * That hath not learned respect for such as these?

Who loveth humor, and hath yet to see
 * Lover and Prout and Lever and Maclise?

Great men grow greater by the lapse of time:
 * We know those least whom we have seen the latest;

And they, 'mongst those whose names have grown sublime,
 * Who worked for Human Liberty, are greatest.

And now for one who allied will to work,
 * And thought to act, and burning speech to thought;

Who gained the prizes that were seen by Burke—
 * Burke felt the wrong—O'Connell felt, and fought.