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ranges of New Zealand, we shall never foi'get the land of saints and scholars—the dear old Emerald Isle. "We may neglect it, but we cannot forget it; and why 1 Because we are bound by the golden fillet of a common faith, and the silver cord of ■ a common love to our Motherland. St. Patrick's Day is a great j day for Ireland ; the Irishman all over ! the world celebrates this day. The Irish i soldier <>n the banks of the Ganges will I celebrate ii ; the shout in the East, as the ! .sun culminates over Pekin, will roll along ' tiie foot of Himalaya : it will sweep across i ti:e Indus, pass over the trade of Alex- ; ander the Great; it will be heard in i ancient Byzantium ; it will, as it were, i disturb the sleeping in the field of Mara- | thou ; it will reverberate along the seven ' hills of Itomo, and almost old Romulus i himself on the banks of the Tiber. Owing i to the nivbterious destinies of Irishmen 1 ' j im.To is no: a spot, from the Yellow Sea j in tiie pillars of Hercules, from the city I of S.uWiJeid to Melbourne, from Melj bourne to Sydney, and from Sydney to ! Dnnedin and Oamaru, &c, in which ' some rmriTy Irishman will not on this day ! iix the green shamrock in his hat, and j with overflowing soul and wild transports j of native joy, sing the inspiring air of his i country, and chant aloud the magical j tune of '"' St. Patrick's Day in the T.lorn- | i'ag." But the commemorating voice of j tliis day through primeval Asia and old ' Europe will be weak in comparison to the j power it will attain when it will cro.ss the I friendly shor;.s of young and vigorous ! .America. : there many a fond Irish heart I will vJcomo vhe well-known cheers as 1 . • ,- 1 • c I ihey lmv.;L in t!:-e patriotic skies Oi I ikiinker's Kill. The shout will assume i the maj'.-.'.ty of tliunder as ifc rolls in peals, ! again and again repeated, over the boundi k-.vS prairi-..s ihat skirt tlio Mississippi, and ! is echoed and re-echoed along the chiselled | Aileghauics, uniil ifc dies away as it 1 i-i ;uh-. :i iiie placid boundless bosom of the i Aaciii j. Thus round and round the globe I v.A- the voiej of Ireland on this day bo j hj:-.r:t 'uy all ma!ikinu ; thus lier scattered ; i.h:!di-;.-:i -pour iorth the patriotic strains of j L-.eir b-doved eaiutvy to the idolatrous i 'i'avv:: : -, \)>.-j T.-.-i-.iie'.l European, the savage ' luuiau. fi■•■;:.::i •" a girdle of national love i ;:nd •i-airioii-'i.-i round the world. X\o ! douhr. ti;e ta-.it remark will be made hy \ sev-.-ra] of my conntrymen that :; we have I ;-:ev---r;-.i i-tK-r ih.ir.gs to trouble us." I | s,-.v. so have the bravo Scotchmen, and i .ah; i'nvv ke-..p up with great credit their | - The .'.■;:■!•. i ia-i.v bo l-i-.oke l>y many a stroke, j j "lit noi.liing ean chind its native ray—• j B-:-.-h fivgni!.!;t v'dl east a light to the last: | Aad ii:::.-, Krin, my country, though j hrokon th -a art. | T!<'.-'.-!.:".~ a hid re within thee that ne'er can ! *< yrk that breathes through each sutlerI An-1 t-iuiles at t!iy pain on St. Patrick's | P:'y." ! Hoping, Mr. Editor, that you will j afT'.-rd our national celebration some kind j co;!-,i<k,ra'iou iu the columns of your valu- ' r.ble v;i-.er, and that better and more ablcI heads may take up the matter.—l am, ! Paddy. I Ui-iinvii. Januarv 29. 1877. i ' "