Royal Irish Rifles

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    “But while meditating
    What we can’t or can
    Let’s keep starring man
    In the royal role.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I think that for once the Sharp’s rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)