THE LAND LEAGUE ALPHABET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 461, 10 February 1882, Page 13

THE LAND LEAGUE ALPHABET.

" A is the Army that covers the ground, B is the buckshot we're getting all round, C is the crowbar of cruellest fame, D is our Davitt, a right glorious name ; E is the English who've robbed us of bread, P is the famine they've left us instead ; G is for Gladstone, whose life is a lie ; H is the harvest we'll hold or we'll die ; I is tbe Inspector, who when drunk is bold, J is the jaryey, who'll not drive him for gold ; X is Kilmainham, where our true men abide ; L is the Land League, our hope and our pride ; M is the magistrate, who makes black of white ; N is no rent, which will make our wrongs right ; O is old Ireland, that yet shall be freed ; P is the peelers, who've sold her for greed ; Q is the Queen, whose use is not known ; B is the Rifles, who keep up her Throne ; S is the sheriff, with woe in his train ; T is the toil that others may gain ; U is the Union that works bitter harm, V is the villain that grabs up a farm ; W is the warrant for death or for chains, X is the Express, all lies and no brains ; ¥ is ' Young Ireland,' spreading the light ; Z is the zeal that will win the great fight."