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The Lost Path

Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

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1. First published in the Nation on 30 March 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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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E850004-028

The Lost Path: Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

p.359

1. Sweet thoughts, bright dreams, my comfort be,
   All comfort else has flown;
   For every hope was false to me,
   And here I am, alone.
   What thoughts were mine in early youth!
   Like some old Irish song,
   Brimful of love, and life, and truth,
   My spirit gushed along.
2. I hoped to right my native isle,
   I hoped a soldier's fame,
   I hoped to rest in woman's smile
   And win a minstrel's name—
   Oh! little have I served my land,
   No laurels press my brow,
   I have no woman's heart or hand,
   Nor minstrel honours now.
3. But fancy has a magic power,
   It brings me wreath and crown,
   And woman's love, the self-same hour
   It smites oppression down.
   Sweet thoughts, bright dreams, my comfort be,
   I have no joy beside;
   Oh! throng around, and be to me
   Power, country, fame, and bride.