An account of the exercises at the dedication and presentation to the city of Boston of the O'Reilly Monument, June 20, 1896 (1897)
Boston (Mass.). City Council · Boston : Printed by order of the City Council · leaf 46
to day, That bids them face the fire or steelIf life alone their debt can pay — All these, the Poet said, they brought,Though scant indeed their worldly store, Naught saying (for he reckoned naught)Of that best gift of all they bore — The Exile whom no chain could bind. Who won his way to freedoms… … JcLoJ ■*tff~f (At-dLtj MEMORIAL SERVICES. o The walls of caste that are so strong,The chains of sect that hold so well — Built on the adamant of wrong,Forged in the furnace fires of hell. The insolence of birth; the pride Of intellect, Gods unearned giftTo thankless man ; vain wealth astride Its…
O'Reilly, John Boyle, 1844-1890 · Monuments
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