School: Ballinagore (C.) (roll number 16341)
- Location:
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss A. Heduan
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“An Orange man from beyond the river.”
(continued from previous page)In puzzling and perplexing doubt
Bill wandered aimlessly about
Until he stumbled on a place
Where over the Archway he could trace
In plain large letters "Purgatory,,
Now here says Bill is a likely story
I thought there was'nt such a place
But here it stares me in the faceI'll knock perhaps they'll give me lodging
I'm tired of this Celestial dodging
He knocked and lo an ancient Pope
Stood at the gate and thus did say
Mortal whence comest thou I pray
From earth your Reverence Bill replied
Strange, says the Pope I never heard
Ought of your coming from any Priest
They might have sent me word at leastSay mortal what was your Profession
Who was it heard your last Confession
I am a Protestant says Bill
But I will your behests fulfil
If you will only let me stay
For I have come a weary wayHe says my child wee'l take you in
And cleance you from that deadly sin
Perhaps ten thousand thousand years
Of fastings punishments and tears
Would purge out the heretical taint
And turn you out a Patron Saint
Say what false church did you belong
Although of course they all are wrongMy Lord an Orange man was I
His Hoiness here heaved a sigh
Then crossed himself and began to scatter
Around the place some Holy Water
Then sadly turning to Bill he said
A Protestant may escape if clever
But Orangemen are doomed for everThe Pope here sadly shut the gate
And Bill was left once more to fate
Muttering of craft and Popish leaven
And plotting to reform Heaven
By instituting Orange Lodges
To circumvent the Popish Dodges- Informant
- Mr Menton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Ballynagore, Co. Westmeath