My transcription from a broadside at The Bodleian Library, 2806 b.10(57):


LAMENTABLE LINES
On the Execution of
Allen, Gould, and Larkin
Executed at Manchester, on November 23rd, 1867.

You married men and women all, attend unto my theme.
Each tender heart that stands around will mourn for the same.
Three brave undaunted Irishmen in Manchester has died,
All for loving Ireland. It was their only pride.

The subjects of those mournful lines, the[y] bore(?) three Irish names.
They went unto America, and there won rank and fame.
For no base action they have died. They came with heart and hand
And left behind the Stars and Stripes to see their native land.

When they received their sentence, they spoke with courage brave.
They said they thanked their counsel, that strove their lives to save.
Likewise the English reformers, as plain it may be seen.
When all things failed, those gentlemen went forward to the Queen.

Alas, my friends, what shall we say? Our misery grew worse
When the painful tidings it came back, that the law should take its course,
And those three Irish patriots in Manchester did die.
They never shot Sergeant Brett, they fervently did cry.

When brave Larkin standing on the drop, he offered up his prayer
For his four helpless children, all in their mother's care.
May the Lord be with you, Ireland. For you I give my life.
For you alone I part with all my children and my wife.

Now to conclude and finish, let every Christian pray.
May the Lord above look down with love upon their ...(?) day,
And may the Blessed Virgin prove a mother to the three,
And get their souls eternal rest with the Blessed Trinity.