" THE PATHLESS WILDS OE' CONNEMARA." rso rem Banos or
vss ..Srserares."1 Sts,—In the Spectator of October 1st, p. 1,289, you quote as from Byron,—" The pathless wilds of Connemara." The epithet is not "pathless," but " hooseless ;" and the author is not Byron, but Moore. It is in "The Twopenny Post-Bag." It occurs in a kind of parody on Horace's- " Integer vftm scelerisque puma," satirically applied to Lord Eldon, and beginning,— " The man who keeps a conscience pure—
If not his own, at least his Prince's- Thro' toil and danger walks secure,
Looks big and black, and never winces."
The last two verses are,—parodying Horace's "Pone me, pigris nbi nulls campis,"—
" Oh ! place me 'mid O'Rourkes, O'Toole, The ragged royal blood of Tara; Or place me where Dick Martin rules, The houseless wilds of Connemara.
Of Church and State I'll warble still, Though even Dick Martin's self should grumble ;— Sweet Church and State, like Jack and Jill, So lovingly upon a hill- Ah ! ne'er like Jack and Jill to tumble."
—I am, Sir, &a.,
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