School: Moynalty (C.)
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- Moynalty, Co. Meath
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)Your spurious lines and you I disregard
And believe me Sir your fellow man and you.
Now perpetrate what devils wouldn't do.II
Sure I committed but one sin alone
And tyrant man to every vice is prone
To fraud, deception, envy, pride and lust
He is false perfidious heinous and unjust.III
When in the garden the first man was made
That man his Maker quickly disobeyed.
Then Cain killed Abel near a waving wood.
And stained his hands in his own brother's blood.IV
Look back to Sodom where man's conduct there
Broke down the earth and putrified the air
Reflect on Judas, the cunning knave
And the false kiss to Mary's Son he gave.V
Now tell me rhymer, if you can
How am I inferior to base man.
Oh, no, I saw man's perfidity and pride
I saw him when his Master he denied.VI
And now I see him in the present age
Led on by malice bigotry and rage.(continues on next page)
