Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
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- (continued from previous page)for to maintain your crown
And churches you have robbed them
And our Abbeys you pulled down
With laws most strict you did inflict
Who dared complain you hung.
Oppression sore for long we bore
and to our claims we clung
till that tyrant Cromwell next came o'er
And nothing with us leaves
Full fifty thousand of our sons
he sold for British slaves.
Although my sons have bravely fought
for to maintain their right.
Yet all the honour they received
Was foremost in the fight(continues on next page)