Where wrapt by evening’s crimson flush,
    We hoped, and felt, and breathed together,
    Beside the broad Suir’s silent gush,
    Or resting on yon mountain heather;
    And dared to look beyond the narrow span,
    That circumscribed the hope of man.

    How sweet, if from the blessed spheres,
    Thou didst bestow one look of love,
    To cheer the hearts and dry the tears
    Of those whose only hope’s above;
    And win, beloved one, from the throne of light,
    One saving ray for our long slavery’s night.

    Or if this may not be, and yet
    Her old doom clings unto the land;
    If on her brow the brand be set,
    And she must bear the chastening hand
    For longer years, O grant, sweet saint, to me,
    To die as if my arm had made her free.

    GLENN, August 3, 1848.

I left Glenn next morning, with still some hope remaining, and sought out my friend to learn his success and prospects.  He came, according to appointment, to a farmer’s house in the direction of Rathgormack, bringing with him James Stephens, who was destined to be thenceforth the companion of my wanderings, privations and dangers.  He detailed to us, nearly as I have repeated it, the affair at Ballingarry.  When he reached the village of Urlingford, he found some difficulty in escaping from the very men he hoped to lead back to the conflict.  After vainly making every effort first to urge them on, and secondly to satisfy them of his own identity, he travelled a distance of thirty miles, and took shelter in the house of a private friend, where he hoped he could remain until something definite would be known of his comrades’ fate.  That his stay was not of long duration, his appearance with us on Thursday, forty miles from the place of his concealment, amply testifies.  That distance he travelled on foot on the preceding day, after having slept a night with a drunken man in a brake.  He was even more averse than we were to giving up the struggle, and it was agreed on finally that he should be allowed to rest in a place of safety; that the messenger who had come from Mr. Meagher’s friend should be despatched with my proposal, and meantime, that I should betake me to the Comeragh mountains in search of Mr. Meagher, while our other comrade should make a final effort to rally the remaining strength of the people.  We would then be in a position to determine finally what we should do.  Stephens and myself proceeded together as far as my former host’s in the mountains, where I left him, and continued my route as far as the Comeraghs, I rested that evening at a place called Sradavalla, and early next day recommenced my search around and over the mountains.  After crossing several minor hills, I ascended the summit of the Comeragh, called Cuimshinane, which commands a prospect of nearly the whole counties of Waterford and Kilkenny, with a great part of Tipperary.  That prospect was at once grand,