Erin's Flag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDDD EEFGHHIIII JJKKLLMMMMMMMMMMMMMM M NNMMMMOPOO QBIIRRNNNN| Unroll Erin's flag fling its folds to the breeze | A |
| Let it float o'er the land let it flash o'er the seas | A |
| Lift it out of the dust let it wave as of yore | B |
| When its chiefs with their clans stood around it and swore | B |
| That never no never while God gave them life | C |
| And they had an arm and a sword for the strife | C |
| That never no never that banner should yield | D |
| As long as the heart of a Celt was its shield | D |
| While the hand of a Celt had a weapon to wield | D |
| And his last drop of blood was unshed on the field | D |
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| Lift it up wave it high 'tis as bright as of old | E |
| Not a stain on its green not a blot on its gold | E |
| Tho' the woes and the wrongs of three hundred long years | F |
| Have drenched Erin's sunburst with blood and with tears | G |
| Though the clouds of oppression enshroud it in gloom | H |
| And around it the thunders of Tyranny boom | H |
| Look aloft look aloft lo the clouds drifting by | I |
| There's a gleam through the gloom there's a light in the sky | I |
| 'Tis the sunburst resplendent far flashing on high | I |
| Erin's dark night is waning her day dawn is nigh | I |
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| Lift it up lift it up the old Banner of Green | J |
| The blood of its sons has but brightened its sheen | J |
| What though the tyrant has trampled it down | K |
| Are its folds not emblazoned with deeds of renown | K |
| What though for ages it droops in the dust | L |
| Shall it droop thus forever No no God is just | L |
| Take it up take it up from the tyrant's foul tread | M |
| Let him tear the Green Flag we will snatch its last shred | M |
| And beneath it we'll bleed as our forefathers bled | M |
| And we'll vow by the dust in the graves of our dead | M |
| And we'll swear by the blood which the Briton has shed | M |
| And we'll vow by the wrecks which through Erin he spread | M |
| And we'll swear by the thousands who famished unfed | M |
| Died down in the ditches wild howling for bread | M |
| And we'll vow by our heroes whose spirits have fled | M |
| And we'll swear by the bones in each coffinless bed | M |
| That we'll battle the Briton through danger and dread | M |
| That we'll cling to the cause which we glory to wed | M |
| 'Til the gleam of our steel and the shock of our lead | M |
| Shall prove to our foe that we meant what we said | M |
| That we'll lift up the green and we'll tear down the red | M |
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| Lift up the Green Flag oh it wants to go home | N |
| Full long has its lot been to wander and roam | N |
| It has followed the fate of its sons o'er the world | M |
| But its folds like their hopes are not faded nor furled | M |
| Like a weary winged bird to the East and the West | M |
| It has flitted and fled but it never shall rest | M |
| 'Til pluming its pinions it sweeps o'er the main | O |
| And speeds to the shores of its old home again | P |
| Where its fetterless folds o'er each mountain and plain | O |
| Shall wave with a glory that never shall wane | O |
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| Take it up take it up bear it back from afar | Q |
| That banner must blaze 'mid the lightnings of war | B |
| Lay your hands on its folds lift your gaze to the sky | I |
| And swear that you'll bear it triumphant or die | I |
| And shout to the clans scattered far o'er the earth | R |
| To join in the march to the land of their birth | R |
| And wherever the Exiles 'neath heaven's broad dome | N |
| Have been fated to suffer to sorrow and roam | N |
| They'll bound on the sea and away o'er the foam | N |
| They'll sail to the music of Home Sweet Home | N |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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