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The Right Road

Author: Thomas Osborne Davis

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1. First published in the Nation.

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 (1840s)

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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.