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146 Ever the same—from boyhood up to death:
 * His race was crushed—his people were defamed;

He found the spark, and fanned it with his breath,
 * And fed the fire, till all the nation flamed!

He roused the farms—he made the serf a yeoman;
 * He drilled his millions and he faced the foe;

But not with lead or steel he struck the foeman:
 * Reason the sword—and human right the blow.

He fought for home—but no land-limit bounded
 * O'Connell's faith, nor curbed his sympathies;

All wrong to liberty must be confounded.
 * Till men were chainless as the winds and seas.

He fought for faith—but with no narrow spirit;
 * With ceaseless hand the bigot laws he smote;

One chart, he said, all mankind should inherit—
 * The right to worship and the right to vote.