GOD BLESS ERIN.
God bless old Erin's verdant isle,
Fair gem 'mid sparkling waters, God bless her homes, of rich and poor,
God bless her sons and daughters. May plenty shower with lavish hand
Her favours freely o'er her, Hay Fortune to her former state Prosperity restore her.
God bless old Erin's isle, Fair gen 'nnd sparkling waters, God bless her home of rich and poor, God bless her sonb and daughters!
2so other sons of Britain's realm
Than Erin's are braver , In times of war or of strife
Their noble hearts ne'er waver. Her heroes' names in days of yore
Were writ in Fame's bright pages; The lustre of theii valiant deeds
Shall glow thiough count les3 ages.
God blcs3 old Erin's verdant isle
With power and peace and gladness, Make hearts long sore oppressed witH care
Beat light with blissful madnets. Then Britons,, ail jn bond 3 of love
No earthly power can sever, May swell the strain o'er land and main, Old Erin's isle for ever!
— SxiLß. 4\- - t Mount Nessing Station, Alluiy. Mnrch 17, 1908-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2715, 28 March 1906, Page 73
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