#The Right Road #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information The Right Road ============== Author: Thomas Osborne Davis ---------------------------- ### File Description T. W. RollestonElectronic edition compiled by Beatrix Färber Proof corrections by Beatrix Färber 1. First draft, revised and corrected.Extent of text: 650 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: E850004-029Availability [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*. **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 The Right Road in , Ed. T. W. Rolleston Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry. The Talbot Press, Dublin and London, ([1910]) page 366### 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 * (2012-05-17) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * Header created; file proofed (1, 2), file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. * (2012-05-17) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * Text captured by scanning. --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850004-029 ### The Right Road: Author: Thomas Osborne Davis --- p.366 1. Let the feeble-hearted pine, Let the sickly spirit whine, But work and win be thine, While you've life. God smiles upon the bold— So, when your flag's unrolled, Bear it bravely till you're cold In the strife. 2. If to rank or fame you soar, Out your spirit frankly pour— Men will serve you and adore, Like a king. Woo your girl with honest pride, Till you've won her for your bride— Then to her, through time and tide, Ever cling. 3. Never under wrongs despair; Labour long, and everywhere, Link your countrymen, prepare, And strike home. Thus have great men ever wrought, Thus must greatness still be sought. Thus laboured, loved, and fought Greece and Rome.