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“The Last Watch.”

“Lo! sinks the sun beneath the Bawn co Pagh

Amidst a perfect sea of yellow gold.”

—Act VI., Scene III.—“Isola.”

FORTUNATUS ON THE HEIGHTS OF AVENAMORE

“The youth upon whose head a price is set,

—Young Fortunatus—is this Isola, ...

And leads as Fortunatus the unknown.”

—Act IV., Scene III.—“Isola.”

ISOLA; or, THE DISINHERITED. A Revolt for Woman and all the disinherited.

BY

LADY FLORENCE DIXIE,

WITH REMARKS THEREON

BY

GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, Esq.

“Heed not the human sneer, the world lives on

Long after those who jeer are dead and gone.

And the ripe products of the fertile brain,

Will live and reproduce fair fruit again.

Thus thou shalt sow, though other hands will reap,

Perchance long after thou hast sunk to sleep.

But, fear not. Thought is Life. It cannot die,

And men will honour what they now deny.”

(“The Coming of Alastor,” in The Songs of a Child.)

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Dedication.

TO

GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, Esq.,

IN ADMIRATION

OF

HIS LONG AND COURAGEOUS FIGHT

AGAINST

SUPERSTITION, INJUSTICE, AND OPPRESSION,

AND OF

HIS FEARLESS DETERMINATION EVER TO SPEAK

AND UPHOLD

The Truth,

THIS DRAMA, LIKEWISE APPEALING FOR JUSTICE TO ALL

LIVING THINGS AND THE RECOGNITION OF TRUTH,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY

THE AUTHOR.

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