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SonnetAuthor(s): John CunninghamSource: The Irish Monthly, Vol. 46, No. 537 (Mar., 1918), p. 184Published by: Irish Jesuit ProvinceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20505020 .

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IRISH FICTION

D'ANJOU (GERMAINE). La Petite-Niece d'O'Connell. pp. 286 in-12. (Paris: Lecoifre). 2 fr. 1888.

Opens at a village near Kenmare in 1874. On the death

of her mother Ellen MacGaway is taken away to Scotland

by her uncle and guardian, Sir Robert Glengarry. The closing scenes are in Kenmare. Ellen, after twice well nigh ruining her life by doing heroically what she believed to be her duty, is made heiress of Lord 0.. who dies a

Catholic, and eventually she marries a voung French officer. A simple tale of pronouncedly nmoral and religious tone. The background of natural scenery is nicely, if a little vaguely, painted. No reference to politics nor to social and other conditions in Ireland.

SONNET.

Was that fond mother's prayer entirelv vain, Though ill-considered-to the Saviour made That in His Kingdom, when the earth he swayed,

Her sons might sit beside Him? He the twain Consoled, replving in prophetic strain,

That unto blood, with His in union shed, They'd serve Him steadfastly. But how repaid?

'Twas God Who spoke: to serve Him is to reign:

To reig,n-nor vet upon some earthly throne, Whose splendour fades with each declining dav; But with Hinmself. in glory like His own, Immune from change, impervious to decay

Nay, of His very essence, which doth make His sovereignty eternal, to partake.

JOIHN CUNNINGIIAM, P.P.

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