School: Gort Leitreach (roll number 15960)

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1. The Policeman (continued)

   

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   All his faults are undisguised
   In person he's [?].
   By locusts he is patronised,
   He is devilish and unhumanized
   Vindictive deeds he has exorcised
   He's also unastrologized
   On cheat he is determinedised
   With nast his frame is supervised
   He is an idiot and idolatrized
   He's heinous and inhumanised
   He's vicious and untranquilised
   He's hellish, vile, uncivilised.
   With Christians he cannot agree
   From lust he sprang and heresy
   To trace from his naturty
   Let you and old of him beware
   They would hang the country for a pot
   You need not wonder much at that
   For that he is and ought to be
   The root and branch of treachery
   His birth and breed, his seed and rate
   Just on the spot I will dictate.
   I will relate without delay
   He is the breed of what I say
   Of spies and traitors, slopers and tinkers
   Wild assassins and black-eyed squinters,
   Foreign [?] and trimming giggers.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Higgins

   Occupation

   Poet

   Address

   Clooncose, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Patrick Bohan

   Gender

   Male