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"Erin! the tear and the smile in thine eyes,
Blend like the rainbow that hangs in thy skies."

MOORE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

THE following "Sketches on Irish Highways" were written after a long residence in England, when a visit to my native country was like a strain of almost forgotten music. Their merit-if merit if they have any consists in their

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truth; the scenes and persons are, for the most part, described exactly as they appeared to me; the delight I experienced at once again standing on Ireland's ground," was than calmed by the misery which the poorer classes exhibit, and which strike an English traveller's observation. My stories, therefore,

have far "Lights."

more of

"Shadows" than

of

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