#Tone's Grave #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information Tone's Grave ============ Author: Thomas Osborne Davis ---------------------------- ### File Description T. W. RollestonElectronic edition compiled and proof corrections by Beatrix Färber 1. First draft, revised and corrected.Extent of text: 875 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2011) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E850004-033Availability [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* 1 March 1843. **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 Tone's Grave in , Ed. T. W. Rolleston Thomas Davis: Selections from his prose and poetry. The Talbot Press, Dublin and London, ([1910]) page 333–334### 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 Direct speech is tagged q except where nesting rules make this impossible. ##### 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. 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Once I lay on that sod—it lies over Wolfe Tone— And thought how he perished in prison alone, His friends unavenged, and his country unfreed— ‘Oh, bitter,’ I said, ‘is the patriot's meed!’ 3. 'For in him the heart of a woman combined With a heroic life and a governing mind— A martyr for Ireland—his grave has no stone— His name seldom named, and his virtues unknown.' 4. I was woke from my dream by the voices and tread Of a band who came into the home of the dead; They carried no corpse, and they carried no stone, And they stopped when they came to the grave of Wolfe Tone. --- p.334 7. There were students and peasants, the wise and the brave, And an old man who knew him from cradle to grave; And children who thought me hard-hearted; for they On that sanctified sod, were forbidden to play. 8. But the old man, who saw I was mourning there, said: 'We come, sir, to weep where young Wolfe Tone is laid, And we're going to raise him a monument too— A plain one, yet fit for the simple and true.' 9. My heart overflowed, and I clasped his old hand, And I blessed him, and blessed every one of his band: Sweet, sweet 'tis to find that such faith can remain To the cause, and the man so long vanquished and slain! 10. In Bodenstown Churchyard, there is a green grave, And freely around it, let the winter winds rave— Far better thay suit him—the ruin and the gloom— Till Ireland, a Nation, can build him a tomb.