[17] It is needless to quote Moore, but the reader may thank me for stealing for his benefit a short lyric by an Irish poet, Mr. Robert Joyce, which is full of the tender sentiment of patriotism, associating love and death in the most touching manner with the often-repeated name of one Irish valley--Glenara. [Sidenote: An Irish Poet.] I O, fair shines the sun on Glenara, And calm rest his beams on Glenara; But O! there’s a light Far dearer, more bright, Illumines my soul in Glenara-- The light of thine eyes in Glenara. II And sweet sings the stream of Glenara, Glancing down through the woods like an arrow; But a sound far more sweet Glads my heart when we meet In the green summer woods of Glenara,-- Thy voice by the wave of Glenara. III And O! ever thus in Glenara, Till we sleep in our graves by Glenara, May thy voice sound as free And as kindly to me, And thine eyes beam as fond in Glenara, In the green summer woods of Glenara! [18] During the Franco-German war I knew French people who could not utter the word “_Patrie_” with dry eyes. [19] During and after the invasion the intensity of the patriotic sentiment was always in exact proportion to the harm done by the invader. It was very feeble where he did not appear, and stronger in proportion to the duration of his presence and the harm that he inflicted. It is still intense in Alsatia and Lorraine, and especially intense in the French who have been expelled from those provinces. [Sidenote: Varying Intensity of Patriotic Sentiment.] [20] I regret not to have preserved some letters written to the English newspapers by private soldiers, in which they described how they were avoided by civilians even of the humbler classes. They appear to have felt themselves more despised in uniform than if they had been out of uniform. This is simply because the English people have never witnessed the sufferings undergone by soldiers in time of war. [21] For example, at the time when I am writing these pages, a young gentleman, who is an intimate friend of mine, and who has received a scientific education, is diligently preparing himself to pass an examination for a commission in the artillery next month. Being obliged to serve in the army in any case, and having a right degree of _amour-propre_, he wishes to be an officer, and in a scientific branch of the service. [22] The throne of Louis Philippe was itself a democratic institution. [23] For the reader’s convenience I quote four passages from Dicey on the sovereignty in England. The references are to the first English edition. “If the true ruler or political sovereign of England were, as was once the case, the King, legislation might be carried out in accordance with the King’s will by one of two methods.”--_The Law of the Constitution_, p. 354. “Parliament is, from a merely legal point of view, the absolute sovereign of the British Empire.”--_Ibid._