School: Moynalty (C.)
- Location:
- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)VI
She said Luther was the instigation
Of hatred malignance and spleen
And that reprobate vile Reformation
Degraded the Shamrock so green.VII
My ill-fated country I mourn
I fell for her wrongs and her woes
With wrath I incessantly burn
When I view the triumph of her foes.VIII
Justice oh why doest thou slumber
While tyrants oppress us so keen
Weighty are the chains that encumber
The friends of the seamróg so green.IX
Poor Catholics for their profession
Groan under a burdensome yoke,
Crushed down by the weight oppresion
Combined and designed to provoke.X
Our humble petitions are slighted
By tyrants remote and obscene
Then let us, my friends be united
In the isle of the Seamróg so green.(continues on next page)
