School: Oldcastle (C.) (roll number 12489)
- Location:
- Oldcastle, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire D. Ní Nualláin
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If so: why should we be so basely maltreated?
Will He not avenge us, if His word be true?
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But, how can we credit your Bible, or Preachers?
Or believe what you say, that your Saviour made known?
When you, by your acts, give the lie to your teachers,
And sin, and show morals for far worse than our own!
Say, lives there a tyrant that worse could aggrieve us?
We cry, and from bondage you will not reprieve us,
From toil and hard usage you will not relieve us,
Nor temper with mercy what makes us to groan!
