Canto 6Charles Stewart Parnell
Book 1. Part One - England and Baroda 1883 – 1898
O pale and guiding light, now star unsphered,
Deliverer lately hailed, since by our lords
Most feared, most hated, hated because feared,
Who smot’st them with an edge surpassing swords!
5Thou too wert then a child of tragic earth,
Since vainly filled thy luminous doom of birth.