THE EVES LOV'D GREEN.

Wellington Independent, Volume X, Issue 1309, 24 July 1858, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE EVES LOV'D GREEN.

BT A' DAUGHTER OF THE E.MEHALD ISLK. On wliy ure the colours so dear to old Ireland timplay'ii for an uuject bo vile and so mean, As enslave lier own children oiu here in New Zealand ; The tool of a tyrant, your ever lov'd Grcou I Oh Erin ihy sons they have ever beeu brave, And iliy daughters as fair as the fairest ure seen; Then why forge the chains that will make you a ■ slave.' And sully your colours, your ever lov'd Green ? Oh what have the WakefielJ's e'er done- for the Irish, ' But denounce them tlie vilest of slaves ever seen; Then wliy will you stoop io the will of the 'tntitor, Delmsin.; your colours, your ever lov'd Green ? When FitzGeraid so ; wisely pro'claim'd in tU' Assembly • ■ ; The Government should in the centre have been: Who quilted ihe House but th 6 Wiikefields, the traitors, And thus east a slur on your ever lov d Green. • Then let me intreat you, ye sons of the Green Islo, Wherever your colours so lovely are seen, Never lee tliein be waved o'er a 'raitor or tyi\iut, A disgrace to yourselves and your ever lov'd .Green. Oh Ireland, my country, how.thy eons must have fallen, How low in tlie scale of humanity seen; When you thua lend yourselves to the schemes of a traitor, ; •■■:.■ Who will sell you as well as your ever lov'd Green !