#Blind Mary #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information Blind Mary ========== Author: Thomas Osborne Davis ---------------------------- ### File Description T. W. RollestonElectronic edition compiled and proof corrections by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet 1. First draft, revised and corrected.Extent of text: 707 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2012) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E850004-002Availability [RESTRICTED] Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only. #### Sources **Source**2. First published in the *Nation* on 12 October 1844. **Other writings by Thomas Davis**2. Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914. 3. Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (ed.), Thomas Davis, the memoirs of an Irish patriot, 1840-1846. 1890. [Reprinted entitled 'Thomas Davis' with an introduction of Brendan Clifford. Millstreet, Aubane Historical Society, 2000.] 4. Thomas Davis: selections from his prose and poetry. [Edited] with an introduction by T. W. Rolleston. London and Leipzig: T. Fisher Unwin (Every Irishman's Library). 1910. [Published in Dublin by the Talbot press, 1914.] 5. Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books. 6. Essays of Thomas Davis. New York, Lemma Pub. Corp. 1974, 1914 [Reprint of the 1914 ed. published by W. Tempest, Dundalk, Ireland, under the title 'Essays literary and historical'.] 7. Thomas Davis: essays and poems, with a centenary memoir, 1845-1945. Dublin, M.H. Gill and Son, 1945. [Foreword by an Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera.] 8. Angela Clifford, Godless colleges and mixed education in Ireland: extracts from speeches and writings of Thomas Wyse, Daniel O'Connell, Thomas Davis, Charles Gavan Duffy, Frank Hugh O'Donnell and others. Belfast: Athol, 1992. Thomas Osborne Davis Blind Mary in , Ed. T. W. Rolleston Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry. The Talbot Press, Dublin and London, ([1910]) page 361### Encoding #### Project Description CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts #### Editorial Declaration ##### Correction Text has been proof-read twice and parsed. ##### Normalization The electronic text represents the edited text. ##### Quotation There is no direct speech. ##### Hyphenation Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (and subsequent punctuation mark) crosses a page-break, this break is marked after the completion of the word (and punctuation mark). ##### Segmentation div0=the poem. Page-breaks are marked pb n="". ##### Standard Values Dates are standardized in the ISO form yyyy-mm-dd. ##### Interpretation Names of persons, places or organisations are not tagged. ### Profile Description Created: by Thomas Davis (1840s) #### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The text is in English. ### Revision History * (2012-01-31) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * File proofed (2), file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. * (2012-01-16) Juliette Maffet (ed.) * File proofed (1); header created; structural and content markup applied. * (1996) Audrey Murphy (ed.) * Text captured by scanning. --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850004-002 ### Blind Mary: Author: Thomas Osborne Davis --- p.361 1. THERE flows from her spirit such love and delight, That the face of Blind Mary is radiant with light— As the gleam from a homestead through darkness will show Or the moon glimmer soft through the fast falling snow. 2. Yet there's a keen sorrow comes o'er her at times, As an Indian might feel in our northerly climes! And she talks of the sunset, like parting of friends, And the starlight, as love, that not changes nor ends. 3. Ah! grieve not, sweet maiden, for star or for sun, For the mountains that tower or the rivers that run— For beauty and grandeur, and glory, and light, Are seen by the spirit, and not by the sight. 4. In vain for the thoughtless are sunburst and shade, In vain for the heartless flowers blossom and fade; While the darkness that seems your sweet being to bound Is one of the guardians, an Eden around!