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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0764, Page 373

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    (continued from previous page)
    ordered feats.
    Speak not of Belgium then Blame not the Kaiser's men,
    Deeds of the Germans grow pale as the dawn,
    Granard your battered walls
    Smoking and ruined halls
    Tells you were loyal to Sinn Fein Amain
    III
    Women returned when daylight was dawing
    Children were trembling and sorely afraid,
    To search for their homes neath the great smoking awning
    That hung over the ruins Brittania had made,
    God of the homeless child,
    Look on the ruins piled.
    Snatch the red sword that the saxon has drawn,
    Knock from his blood stained hand musket and fiery brand,
    did free mother Erin and SInn Fein Amain.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. fires (~306)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Joseph Donnelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Carragh, Co. Longford