"NO IRISH NO APPLY."

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1519, 12 February 1886, Page 5

"NO IRISH NO APPLY."

[Composed after seeiiiL' recently the above quoted sentence in an advertisement for a servant in a western New Zealand newspaper. The writer of the following lines thought vc had outiived such times] Shame on the lips that utter it, shame on the hands that write, Shame on the page that pubi'i-he* such slander tc the light. 1 fee] the blood with lirfhtning-spced through al! my veins fast fly At the old taunt, for ever now—.Vo Irish need apply. Arc not our hands as stout and strong, our hearts as warm and true, As tt>o:>e who fling this taunt at us. to cheat us of our due ? While 'neath our feet God's earth is firm, and o'er us hangs His sky. Where there is honor to be won— The Irish need apply. Oil! have not glorious things been done by Irish hearts and hands? Is not eur fame emblazoned far o'er many seas and lands? There may be tears on Ireland's check, but still her heart beats high, And where there's valour to be shown -The Irish need apply. Wherever noble thoughts are nursed and noble words are said, Wherever i alienee still endures when hope itself seems dead, Wherever honest industry to win its goal will try, Wherever manly toil prevails— The Irish need apply.

Wherever woman's love is p'irc a* is unsullied snow, Wherever woman's check at t«*les of injury will ({low, . Wherever pity-in*? tears are shed, or breathe', a feeling Wherever kin llir.ess h fought • Tltf Iruh need ipply.

If there is aught of tenderness, if there is aught of worth, U there s a trace of heaven left upon our sin-stained earth, If there a's noble, ,-tcalfast heart" that uncomplainingdie, To tread like then life's thorny path— The lrinh will apply.

Till on Killarney's waters blue the soft stars cease to shine, Ti'l round the parent oak no more the ivy leaves entwine, Till Ncphin topples from his place or Shannon's stream runs

dry, For all that's great and good and pure— The Irish will apply. Cardrona, Ist February, 1330". J.M.