nd that. People were harmless
long ago and why wouldn't they be made harmless
again? Aristotle said, "Fair play is more
beautiful than the morning and the evening star!"

"Be friendly with one another," he said, "and
let the lawyers starve!" I'll turn the captains of
soldiers to be as peaceable as children picking
strawberries in the grass. I've a mind to change
the tongue of the people to the language of the
Greeks, that no farmer will be grumbling over a
halfpenny Independent, but be following the plough
in full content, giving out Homer and the praises
of the ancient world!

_Flannery_: If you make the farmers content you
will make the world content.

_Rock_: You will, when you'll bring the sun from
Greece to ripen our little lock of oats!

_Conan_: So I will drag Ireland from its moorings
till I'll bring it to the middling sea that has no ebb
or flood!

_Rock_: You will do well to put a change on the
college that harboured you, and that left you so
much of folly.

_Conan_: I'll do that! I'll be in College Green
before the dawn is white--no but before the night
is grey! It is to Dublin I will bring my spell, for
I ever and always heard it said what Dublin will
do to-day Ireland will do to-morrow! (_Sings_.)

"Let Erin remember the days of old
Ere her faithless sons betrayed her--
When Malachy wore the collar of gold
Which he won from her proud invader--
When her kings with standards of green unfurl'd,
Led the Red-Branch knights to danger;
Ere the emerald gem of the western world
Was set in the crown of a stranger."

_Rock_: And maybe you'll tell us now by what
means you will do all this?

_Conan_: Go out of the house and I will tell you
in the by and bye.

_Rock_: That is what I was thinking. You are
talking nothing but lies.

_Conan_: I tell you that power is not far from
where you stand! But I will let no one see it only
myself.

_Flannery_: There might be some truth in it.
There are some say enchantments never went out
of Ireland.