If thou canst Death defy, If thy faith is entire, Press onward, for thine eye Shall see thy heart's desire. Beauty and love are nigh, And with their deathless quire-- Soon shall thine eager cry Be numbered and expire. Page 27. 'Dark Rosaleen' is one of the old names of Ireland. Mangan's translation is very free; as a rule when he tried to translate literally, as in 'The Munster Bards,' all glimmer of inspiration left him. Page 32, line 20. 'This passage is not exactly a blunder, though at first it may seem one: the poet supposes the grave itself transferred to Ireland, and he naturally includes in the transference the whole of the immediate locality about the grave' (Mangan note). Page 47, line 6. The two Meaths once formed a distinct province. Page 55, line 7. This poem is an account of Mangan's own life, and is, I think, redeemed out of rhetoric by its intensity. The following poem, 'Siberia,' describes, perhaps, his own life under a symbol. Page 59. Hy Brasail, or Teer-Nan-Oge, is the island of the blessed, the paradise of ancient Ireland. It is still thought to be seen from time to time glimmering far off. Page 61. _Mo Craoibhin Cno_ means my cluster of nuts, and is pronounced _Mo Chreevin Knò_. Page 64. Mr. O'Keefe has sent the writer a Gaelic version of this poem, possibly by Walsh himself. A correspondent of his got it from an old peasant who had not a word of English. A well-known Gaelic scholar pronounces it a translation, and not the original of the present poem. _Mairgréad ni Chealleadh_ is pronounced _Mairgréd nei Kealley_. The _Ceanabhan_, pronounced _Kanovan_, is the bog cotton, and the _Monadan_ is a plant with a red berry found on marshy mountains. Page 69. _A cuisle geal mo chroidhe_, pronounced _A cushla gal mo chre_, means 'bright pulse of my heart.' Page 74. Sir Samuel Ferguson introduces the poem as follows:--