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The Boatman of Kinsale

Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

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1. First published in the Nation on 16 November 1844.

Other writings by Thomas Davis
1. Thomas Davis, Essays Literary and Historical, ed. by D. J. O'Donoghue, Dundalk 1914.
2. 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.]
3. 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.]
4. Thomas Osborne Davis, Literary and historical essays 1846. Reprinted 1998, Washington, DC: Woodstock Books.
5. 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'.]
6. 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.]
7. 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.

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Created: by Thomas Davis (1844)

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• (2012-05-08)

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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850004-023

The Boatman of Kinsale: Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

p.363

1. His kiss is sweet, his word is kind,
   His love is rich to me;
   I could not in a palace find
   A truer heart than he.
   The eagle shelters not his nest
   From hurricane and hail,
   More bravely than he guards my breast—
   The Boatman of Kinsale.
2. The wind that round the Fastnet sweeps
   Is not a whit more pure—
   The goat that down Cnoc Sheehy leaps
   Has not a foot more sure.
   No firmer hand nor freer eye
   E'er faced an autumn gale—
   De Courcy's heart is not so high—
   The Boatman of Kinsale.

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p.364

3. The brawling squires may heed him not,
   The dainty stranger sneer—
   But who will dare to hurt our cot
   When Myles O'Hea is here?
   The scarlet soldiers pass along;
   They'd like, but fear to rail;
   His blood is hot, his blow is strong—
   The Boatman of Kinsale.
4. His hooker's in the Scilly van
   When seines are in the foam;
   But money never made the man,
   Nor wealth a happy home.
   So, blest with love and liberty,
   While he can trim a sail,
   He'll trust in God, and cling to me—
   The Boatman of Kinsale.