...a hand on the bar and rocking gently back and forth sang in a drink-broken voice a ballad beginning "The harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed." After the song he put his head down upon the bar and wept while the miners looked on touched with sympathy....

...tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. /«</. The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Xow hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, Bo...

...chieftain's glory! 59 THE LAST MINSTREL From viking feast, from feudal throne, the minstrel drew his story! The harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed Vied with a modern waltz to win this last lone bard his bread! 40 SIX SONNETS CLOSED DOORS MY heart...

...Death Duties — are still made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his annual field night. But, like the harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed, the Peroration is dead. Another marked change wrought by the hand of Time in the habits of the House...

...been held in the mighty banquet hall, amidst the sonorous recitals of the bards, was held no more. "The Harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hung as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul had fled." The annual assembly of chieftains, which had...

...come into that scene, Joseph Ruggles, with his gay persiflage, with the prancing strut that followed the "harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed," what a day it would have been! But the Wilson blood in those days of travail had been yielding in the...

...In Woman's eyes; and that on another occasion I felt the melancholy of departed glory as he chanted: The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed. But he was not wholly compact of sentiment. He had in him a sterner stuff, a firm adherence to principle...

...song is a combination of sentimentality over the glories of former days and patriotic indignation: The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as rnute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled, So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill...

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...TIM HEALY occasionally nipping in with interjection designed to bring low his compatriots. As a rule the harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed now hangs as mute on Westminster's walls as if that soul were dead. Of course it isn't. Current circumstances arise out...