ARE YOU IRISH?
If you arc true to Ireland In these dark days, In high and lowly places serve Her well in countless ways, Then when her own flag’s flying And all the people’s crying, “Banished now her tears and sighing,” .. You’ll bo glad. But if you’ve failed to help her (Ough! you poor shoneen, Sporting paltry English “honor” For the shamrock green). Oh! with the joybells ringing And little birds clear singing, The news, “she’s free,” wide flinging, You ? feel bad. i •:V. I And where may you find shelter On some lone isle, unseen, While ships the sea a-sailing Salute the flag of green? When North will coldly treat you, The Far East, scornful, greet you, And West decline to meet you, You’ll be sad. —Are ah Luen.
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New Zealand Tablet, 21 July 1921, Page 33
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130ARE YOU IRISH? New Zealand Tablet, 21 July 1921, Page 33
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