Lyr. Add: THE FENIAN MEN

See who comes over the red-blossomed heather!
Their Green Banners kissing the pure mountain-air:
Heads erect, eyes to the front, stepping proudly together:
Sure, Freedom sits throned in each proud spirit there.
Down the hills twining,
Their blessed steel shining:
Like rivers of beauty, they flow from each glen,
From mountain and valley:
'Tis Liberty's rally..
Out! and make way for the FENIAN MEN!

Our prayers and our tears have been scoffed and derided;
They've shut out God's sunlight from spirit and mind.
Our Foes were united; and We were divided..
We met.. and they scattered us all to the wind;
But, once more returning,
Within our veins burning
The fires that illumined dark Aherlow glen:
We raise the old cry anew:
Slogan of Con and Hugh..
Out! and make way for the FENIAN MEN!

We have MEN from the Nore, from the Suir and the Shannon;
Let the tyrants come forth.. we'll bring force against force;
Our PEN is the sword, and our voice is the cannon..
Rifle for rifle, and horse against horse.
We've made the false Saxon yield
Many a red battle-field..
God on our side, we will do so again,
Pay them back woe for woe,
Give them back blow for blow..
Out! and make way for the FENIAN MEN!

Side by side, for this cause, have our forefathers battled,
When our hills never echoed the tread of a slave,
On many green fields, where the leaden-hail rattled,
Through the red gap of glory, they marched to the grave
And they, who inherit
Their names and their spirit,
Will march 'neath our Banners of Liberty: then,
All who love Saxon law,
Native or Sassenagh.
Out! and make way for the FENIAN MEN!

Up for the cause, MEN! fling forth our Green Banners!
From the East to the West, from the South to the North,
ISISH LAND, IRISH MEN, IRISH MIRTH, IRISH MANNERS.
From the mansion and cot, let the Slogan go forth:
Sons of Old Ireland, now,
Love you our sireland? now,
Come from the kirk, or the chapel, or glen;
Down with all Faction old!
Concert and action BOLD:
THIS is the creed of the FENIAN MEN!

Attributed to Michael Scanlan, but the H. De Masran printing (NYC) from c. 1860 (according to Bodleian Library) lacks date or author. De Masran texts were sold both in North America and the British Isles. Bold type face in the broadside as shown. Copies in both American Memory and the Bodleian Library with the title "The Fenian Men." The word 'Bold' seems to be a late addition, it does not appear in the lyrics.

As noted in post 08 Dec., Big Mick in thread 13578 Fenian gave the first four verses. The first is again given above by Martin Ryan. The Fenians seem to come up regularly in threads so the complete text should be in the DT.