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Roger Casement the Night before his Execution Casement (Roger) 1864 - 1916. A copy of Aubrey de Vere's ''Inisfall, A Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland.'' 8vo L. n.d. NEW EDN., orig. green cloth. * Inscribed by Casement in Irish and English to Fr. Eamon Murnane, the priest who attended him in his prison cell on the night before his execution, with a transcription in Casement's hand (on rear of title page) of four stanzas from his poem ''In the Streets of Catania, Sicily 1900,'' signed with initials R.C. dated 2 Augt. 1916, in Pentonville. ''All that was beautiful and just, All that was pure and sad, Went in one little moving plot of dust The world called bad. (one stanza forgotten) Come like a highwayman and went One who was bold and gay - Left when his lighty-loving mood was spent The heart to pay. By-word of little Street and men Narrower theirs the shame - Tread thou the lava loving leaves, and then Turn whence it came. Etna all wonderful, whose heart Glows as thine Throbbing glows, Almond and Citron bloom quivering at start - Ends in pure snows. Laid in is a newspaper cutting of a letter by H. Montgomery Hyde outlining Casement's religious background and the circumstances of his final conversion to Catholicism. * A most moving and unique memento of Sir Roger Casement, British statesman, Irish patriot hanged at Pentonville at dawn on 3rd August, 1916, following his conviction for high treason in consequence of his Irish Volunteer activities. He lived for the Rose of England, and died for the Green of Ireland. Roger Casement the Night before his Execution Casement (Roger) 1864 - 1916. A copy of Aubrey de Vere's ''Inisfall, A Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland.'' 8vo L. n.d. NEW EDN., orig. green cloth. * Inscribed by Casement in Irish and English to Fr. Eamon Murnane, the priest who attended him in his prison cell on the night before his execution, with a transcription in Casement's hand (on rear of title page) of four stanzas from his poem ''In the Streets of Catania, Sicily 1900,'' signed with initials R.C. dated 2 Augt. 1916, in Pentonville. ''All that was beautiful and just, All that was pure and sad, Went in one little moving plot of dust The world called bad. (one stanza forgotten) Come like a highwayman and went One who was bold and gay - Left when his lighty-loving mood was spent The heart to pay. By-word of little Street and men Narrower theirs the shame - Tread thou the lava loving leaves, and then Turn whence it came. Etna all wonderful, whose heart Glows as thine Throbbing glows, Almond and Citron bloom quivering at start - Ends in pure snows. Laid in is a newspaper cutting of a letter by H. Montgomery Hyde outlining Casement's religious background and the circumstances of his final conversion to Catholicism. * A most moving and unique memento of Sir Roger Casement, British statesman, Irish patriot hanged at Pentonville at dawn on 3rd August, 1916, following his conviction for high treason in consequence of his Irish Volunteer activities. He lived for the Rose of England, and died for the Green of Ireland.