The Name Erin.*
by Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling.
Volume 1, 1890/91, pg. 768
[True.]
An Irish teacher, sounding Erin's glory,
Dictated to small Saxons the sweet story
Of Patrick's preaching Christ to the old Erse--
"Children of Erin, lifted is the curse. . . ."
"My little child," the lady bent adown
Her smiling face, and vainly tried to frown,--
The Saxon pupil carefully had writ
"Children of Aaron." Do but think of it.
Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling.
*Pronounced in Ireland, Airun.
Typed by happi, Jun. 2017