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Thread #115202 Message #2473332
Posted By: Jim Dixon
22-Oct-08 - 09:45 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: men of '98, men of Easter week
Subject: Lyr Add: WHO FEARS TO SPEAK OF EASTER WEEK?
And this is the later song that was patterned after the one above:
1. Who fears to speak of Easter Week? Who dares its fate deplore? The red gold flame of Eire's name Confronts the world once more! Oh! Irishmen, remember then, And raise your heads with pride, For great men and straight men Have fought for you and died.
2. The spirit wave that came to save The peerless Celtic soul, From earthly stain of greed and gain Had caught them in its roll; Had swept them high to do or die, To sound a trumpet call; For true men though few men To follow one and all.
3. Upon their shield a stainless field, With virtues blazoned bright; With Temperance and Purity And Truth and Honour dight So now they stand at God's Right Hand, Who framed their dauntless clay, Who taught them and brought them The glory of today.
4. The storied page of this our age Will save our land from shame The ancient foe had boasted—ho! That Irishmen were tame They bought their souls for paltry doles, And told the world of slaves That lie men! shall die, men! In Pearse and Plunkett's graves.
5. The brave who've gone to linger on Beneath the tyrant's heel— We know they pray another day With clash of clanging steel Now from their cell their voices swell, And loudly call on you Then ask, men! the task, men! That yet remains to do.