{"id":293,"date":"2008-06-14T14:08:01","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-06-14T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T14:08:01","slug":"teresa-braytons-poem-kildare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/teresa-braytons-poem-kildare\/","title":{"rendered":"TERESA BRAYTON’S POEM, ‘KILDARE’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Leinster<\/strong> Leader\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>24 December <\/strong>1910. P. 7.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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KILDARE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Say what of Kildare?-is she waking or sleeping?<\/div>\n
Now the day of our testing is growing apace.<\/div>\n
And mighty as winter-tossed billows on leaping<\/div>\n
Wild \u2018farrahs\u2019 ring out from the lips of our race!<\/div>\n
What of Kildare, ever foremost and ready,<\/div>\n
Whenever our warflag was raised for the right.<\/div>\n
Has she lifted her standard, true hearted and steady.<\/div>\n
Where Kildare ought to be-in the thick of fight!<\/div>\n
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The shrine of St. Brigid whose lamp ever burning<\/div>\n
Shone out like a star on the ramparts of God,<\/div>\n
The home of Lord Edward, our eagle of morning<\/div>\n
Could traitors abide on so sacred a sod!<\/div>\n
Could fear of defeat or despair of a morrow<\/div>\n
Find place where the ashes of Tone are at rest<\/div>\n
Is there room for a coward or time for a sorrow<\/div>\n
With \u201cCroom a boo\u201d watchword and oak tree for crest!<\/div>\n
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No, from Naas to Maynooth rings the slogan of \u201cFreedom.\u201d<\/div>\n
From Newbridge to Leixlip, Kilcock to Athy<\/div>\n
The men of Kildarra are there when we need them<\/div>\n
They know how to fight and they know how to die.<\/div>\n
There the spirit of liberty hovers unsleeping<\/div>\n
Where rebels and martyrs found birth an a grave<\/div>\n
And the murdered of Mullaghmast watch still are keeping<\/div>\n
O\u2019er fields never trod by the foot of a slave.<\/div>\n
Sure the challenge she threw in the face of the foeman<\/div>\n
Of old when her claims flashed their falchions in air<\/div>\n
Is still to the fore for a finish, and no man<\/div>\n
Shall humble the shield of Fitzgerald\u2019s Kildare.<\/div>\n
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Unconquered, invincible, steadfast forever,<\/div>\n
With a hand for the south and the north and the west<\/div>\n
The foremost in onset the latest to waver,<\/div>\n
She stands from the Counties, the first of the best.<\/div>\n
Kildare is awake for she never has slumbered<\/div>\n
Whenever the summons to battle went forth,<\/div>\n
The deeds of her dead with the bravest are numbered.<\/div>\n
The sons of her soil are the salt of the earth.<\/div>\n
As true as the Liffey that sweeps ever onward<\/div>\n
Through sunshine and storming, through shadow and light,<\/div>\n
Kildare holds her standard aloft in the vanguard<\/div>\n
Where Kildare ought to be-in the thick of the fight.<\/div>\n
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Teresa C. Brayton.<\/div>\n
In New York \u201cIrish World.\u201d<\/div>\n
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[line 26 \u2013 claims should read clans according to the book \u2018Teresa Brayton – In an Irish Twilight; An anthology of Her Poetry and Short Stories.\u2019 Compiled by Bernadette Gilligan and published by The Teresa Brayton Heritage Group, Kilcock in 2002.]<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nA copy of Teresa Brayton’s Poem, ‘KILDARE’ which appeared at Chrismas-time in the Leinster Leader in 1910. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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