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1. James Tevlin - The Poet's Dream of Hell (continued)

   

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   And when to me these words were spoke
   The friends were all disarmed.

   V
   Then he said, "What place on earth
   Were you, sir, situated?
   Or what strange country gave you birth
   Now let it be related"

   VI
   "In old Ireland" I did reply
   "My father lived for ages
   But from it they were forced to fly
   When tyrants are outrageous."

   VII
   The mighty monarch grinned a smile
   A smile of indignation
   And said the tyrants of that isle
   Well desreved damnation

   IX
   "For if the world was searched all round
   Each different zone and place man
   On earth no villains could be found
   So sorrid bad and base man"

   X
   For such oppression was unknown
   IN Dracoo's time or Nero's
   And such cruelty was never shown

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