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| SCENE IN MAYO. -The County Mayo, although not the most fertile, is one of the largest and most picturesque of the Irish "shires," and has more representatives in America than, perhaps, any other county, except Cork and Limerick. In no district of Ireland has the hand of the evictor been more heavily against the people, and the ring of the despoiler's crow-bar and pickax is even yet heard in the land. Mayo is the birth place of two of the greatest Irishmen of modern days-John MacHale, "Lion of the Fold of Judah," the great Archbishop of Tuam and the greatest conservator of the Gaelic language, who died in the fullness of years and honors about the time Parnell came into power; and Michael Davitt, the founder of the Irish Land League, who still lives to do good battle for his native land. The accompanying sketch shows a country road, passing over a solid bridge in a strikingly scenic portion of Mayo-the sparkling waters stretching on either hand far and wide; the craggy rock above, and the misty mountains in the distance. There lake and plain smile fair and free, That chainless wave and lovely land 'Mid rocks, their guardian chivalry- Freedom and nationhood demand- Sing oh! let man learn liberty Be sure, the great God never plann'd From crashing wind and lashing sea! For slumbering slaves a home so grand! |
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