When Cromwell Came to Drogheda: A Memory of 1649 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Randal McDonnell

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133080662X ISBN 13 : 9781330806623

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from When Cromwell Came to Drogheda: A Memory of 1649

I knelt beside the bed and took the worn white hands within my own and my tears fell silently as he feebly blessed me and pointed to the sword upon the wall.

Wear it always, he whispered, for Ire land. I have been hunted from my home and ruined for the sake of a false king. I have been tracked across the desolated land like a beast of prey, but I never swerved from the call of honour or changed sides like the others when they saw the game was lost. For Ireland I have fought a good fight, I have kept the Faith.

He died that evening, passing with the setting sun and leaving me alone in the world.

That night I took the old sword from the wall and kissed the rugged hilt, and prayed that I might wear it too as he had done, and leave behind me when the years had passed away as stainless and as sweet a name.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133080662X
• ISBN 13: 9781330806623
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
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