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266 Lenox Robinson
false glow of city culture and ease ! Greater still
this tragedy in a country like Ireland, its people
taxed to the very marrow and exploited to the
verge of starvation, leaving the young genera
tion no opening, no opportunity in life.
It is inevitable that the sons and daughters of
Ireland, robust in body and spirit, yearning for
things better and bigger, should desert her. For
as Mary says,
"
When the sun sets here, it s all so
dark and cold and dreary." But the young need
light and warmth and these are not in the
valley of ever-present misery and want.
"
Harvest
"
is an expressive picture of the so
cial background of the Irish people, a background
somber and unpromising but for the streak of
dawn that pierces that country s dark horizon in
the form of the inherent and irrepressible fighting
spirit of the true Irishman, the spirit of the Fenian
revolt whose fires often slumber but are never put
out, all the ravages of our false civilization not
withstanding.
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