I, “that gave Patrick his birth, Bless the land of the oak, and its neighboring earth, Where grows the shillelah and shamrock so green.
At evening returning, as homeward he goes, His heart, soft with whiskey, his head soft with blows, From a sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green.
With your sprig of shillelah and shamrockso green?
Och, love is the soul of a neat Irishman; He loves all that is lovely, loves all that he can; With a sprig of shillelah, and shamrock so green.
United and happy, at liberty’s shrine, May the rose and the thistle long flourish and twine Round a sprig of shillelah and shamrock so green.
Viva la, the rose shall fade, And the shamrock shine for ever new!
In the corner of your invitations should be a shamrockor an Irish hat, and you can buy these cards just before St. Patrick’s Day.
First comes the shamrock hunt, so give to each child a bag or basket, and sharp eyes will soon find the shamrocks which have been hidden about the room.
As a rest from the excitement of the potato race, the shamrock contest may come next, and this is just like the clover contest at your clover party.
Shamrock perceived that the Brownies distrusted him, and again spoke: "We are in earnest.
Then pull theshamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod, And never fear, 'twill take root there, though under foot 'tis trod.
It was a cluster of shamrock leaves, the emblem of Ireland.
The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.
I picked some shamrock leaves this morning, and I put them in the big book to press.
After the examination, I went on board the Shamrock and passed the night.
You may take the shamrock from your hat and cast it on the sod, But 'twill take root and flourish there, though under foot 'tis trod.
Now of course the true shamrock is the particular trefoil which St. Patrick plucked first on the Rock of Cashel, but there is no way of telling which that was.
It was at that moment the brilliant idea flashed into her head to ask if the true shamrock grew in the neighbourhood.
Many of the emigrants had bunches of wild flowers and heather, and one of them a shamrock in a broken flowerpot, as memorials of dear ould Ireland.
From the green glens that he beside the sea From cloud capt Sleive mis of the shamrock vest?
Eugenia interrupted her: "Oh, Betty, please write a legend of the shamrockfor girls that will fit modern times.
I see them, the pioneer nation of whom Brendan was the first leader, planting the cross and the shamrock in unfailing union, wherever they go.
Oxalis answers for shamrockand pots of this arranged in a "fairy ring" with fairy lamps or green-shaded candles make a pretty, inexpensive centerpiece.
Her act and the flash of the diamond attracted his attention to the little chain and shamrock upon her breast.
If she should tell Mr. Goddard that the shamrock had been given to her by the housekeeper, it might subject the woman to an unpleasant interview with the master of the house, and, perhaps, place her in a very awkward position.
There was not a single ornament about her, excepting the pretty chain and diamond-hearted shamrock which Mrs. Weld had that evening given to her, and which she had involuntarily kissed before clasping it about her neck.
The week that intervened between that time and the sailing of the Shamrock passed swiftly away.
Thus stood affairs when the day came upon which the Shamrock was to sail, and Ward must leave in the early train of cars for Liverpool, to be on board at the hour of starting.
Thus both the shamrock and the red saltire cross form the salient features of the insignia of the "Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick," the Irish order of knighthood.
The maple leaf emblem of Canada, as compared with the rose, shamrock and thistle of the British Isles, has but so recently entered into the realm of national emblems that some of the reasons for its adoption may well be given.
Green shamrock leaves of tin, with the names of all the donors--this is important--obtrude themselves here and there.
