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Do you want to hear a story	A
With a nobler praise than glory	A
Of a man who loved the right like heaven and loathed the wrong like hell	B
Then that story let me tell you	C
Once again though it as well you	C
Know as I the splendid story of the man they call Parnell	D
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By the wayside of the nations	E
Lashed with whips and execrations	E
Helpless hopeless bleeding dying she the Maiden Nation lay	F
And the burthen of dishonour	A
Weighed so grievously upon her	A
That her very children hid their eyes and crept in shame away	F
	-
And there as she was lying	G
Helpless hopeless bleeding dying	G
All her high born foes came round her fleering jeering as they said	H
What is freedom fought and won for	A
She is dead She's down and done for	A
And her weeping children shuddered as they crouched and whispered Dead	H
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Then suddenly up starting	G
All that throng before him parting	G
See a man with firm step breaking through that central knot that gives	E
And as by some dear lost sister	A
He knelt down and softly kissed her	A
And he raised his pale proud face and cried She is not dead She lives	E
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O she lives I say and I here	A
I am come to fight and die here	A
For the love my heart has for her like a slow consuming fire	A
For the love of her low lying	G
For the hatred deep undying	G
Of the robber lords who struck and stabbed and trod her in the mire	A
	-
Then upon that cry bewildering	G
Some of them her hapless children	I
In their hearts there leaped up hope like light when night gives birth to day	F
And as mocks and threats defied him	J
One by one they came beside him	J
Till they stood a band of heroes sombre desperate at bay	F
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And the battle that they fought there	A
And the bitter truth they taught there	A
To the blinded Sister Nation suffering grievously alway	F
All the wrong and rapine past hers	E
Of her lords and her task masters	E
Is not this the larger hope of all as night gives birth to day	F
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For the lords and liars are quaking	G
At the People's stern awaking	G
From their slumber of the ages and the Peoples slowly rise	E
And with hands locked tight together	A
One in heart and soul for ever	A
Watch the sun of Light and Liberty leap up into the skies	E
	-
That's the story that's the story	A
With a nobler praise than glory	A
Of the Man who loved the right like heaven and loathed the wrong like hell	B
And with calm proud exultation	I
Bade her stand at last a nation	I
Ireland Ireland that is one name with the name of Charles Parnell	D

Francis William Lauderdale Adams

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