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1. The Debate with the Devil (continued)

   

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   He smiles to please, to flatter and betray
   And slyly strives to lead the just astray
   Oh! rader [?], dear, his hidden snares avoid
   For countless thousands by him were destroyed
   Oppressors, misers, tyrants, hacks and spies,
   Who live by fraud, deception, vanity and lies.
   And I could add more of those who now exist
   To this reviling, shatterising list
   But it would not answer at the present time
   To name proud Ceadar in this simple thyme.
   "Satan's Reply"
   Oh" vicious, vain, deceitful village bard
   Your spurious lines and you I desregard
   And believe me, sir, your fellow man and you
   Now perpetrate what devils wouldn't do.
   Sure, I committed but one sin alone,
   And tyrant man to every sin is prone
   To fraud, deception, envy, pride, and lust
   He is false, perfidious, heinous and unjust.
   When in the garden the first man was made
   That man his Maker quickly disobeyed,
   Then Cane killed Abel near a waving wood,
   And stained his hands in his own brother's blood;
   Look back to Sodom where man's conduct there
   Broke down the earth and putrefied the air.
   Reflect on Judas, the cunning knave
   And the false kiss to Mary's Son he gave;

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Fitzsimmons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ardlow, Co. an Chabháin

   Informant

   Michael Meenagh

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 64

   Address

   Baile an tSléibhe, Co. na Mí