Oh! the Cross of deepest blue,
With the bright stars shining through,
That was raised, my sons, for you,
On a skirt of purest whiteness long ago,
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What have we all forgotten, at the break of the seventh year?
With a nation born to the ages and a Bad Time borne on its bier!
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Pat M'Durmer brought the tidings to the town of God-Forgotten :
‘There are lively days before ye—commin Parlymint’s dissolved!’
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