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Thread #13054   Message #1125827
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Feb-04 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: Discussion: Lament of the Irish Emigrant
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lament of the Irish Emigrant
A broadside of six verses also was printed in New York in the 19th century, by J. Andrews. A copy is on line at American Memory.

Absent in this NY printing are the verses:
Yours was the good, brave heart, Mary,
That still kept hoping on, etc.
and
I thank you for your patient smile
When your heart was fit to break,- etc.

See the eight verse Rankin-Lady Dufferin version posted by Fred... and the identical version posted by Alice in 1997 (thread 2347) from Bryant, "The Library of World Poetry.": Lament

There are too many threads on this poem; lack of cross-checking causes repetition.