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they would say he ought to be ashamed of himself
and tar and feather him, But he would be a
king to a Policeman who for a lazy loafing
cowardly billet left the ash corner deserted
the Shamrock, the emblem of true wit and
beauty to serve under a flag and nation that
has destroyed massacreed and murdered their
forefathers by the greatest of torture as rolling
them down hill in spiked Barrels pulling
their toes and finger nails and on the wheel
and every torture imaginable more was trans
ported to Van Diemans Land to pine their
young lives away in starvation and misery
among tyrants worse than the promised
hell itself all of true blood bone and beauty
that was not murdered on their own soil
or had fled to America or other countries
to bloom again another day were doomed
to Port McQuarie Toweringabbie and Norfolk
Island and Emu Plain and in those places
of Tyranny and condemnation many a
blooming Irishman rather than subdue
to the Saxon yoke were flogged to death
and bravely died in servile chains but
true to the Shamrock and a credit to Paddys
land What would people say if I became a
Policeman and took an oath to arrest my
brothers sisters & relations and convict
them by fair or foul means after the con
viction of my Mother and the persecutions and
insults offered to myself and people would
they say I was a decent gentleman
