School: St Brigid's Convent, Goresbridge (roll number 15695)

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1. When Wexford Rose (continued)

   

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   red blood their blood alone.
   For murdered kin, for plundered homes and altars can atone!

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   "Our homes were given to the torch, our humble altars, too!
   No life was sacred where they rode - the darkest wrong of all -
   Blush with manhood's shame to have such horror to recall!"

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   "Ha! But we'll test their valour now for all the wrongs we bore -
   The pitch-cap and the brutal lash - O God! how oft we swore
   To have revenge for all our wrongs - and lo! the hour's at hand!
   Old Wexford's spirit thrills to night, from Bree to Bannow's stand."

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   Fair Shilmalier her tall sons sends - they come from far and wide.

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Doyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Goresbridge, Co. Kilkenny