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58 Through ages of warfare and famine and prison
 * Her voice and her spirit were free:

But the longest night ends, and her name has uprisen:
 * The Sunburst is red on the sea!

What need of new songs? When his country is singing,
 * What word has the Poet to say.

But to drink her a toast while the joy-bells are ringing
 * The dawn of her opening day?

"O Bride of the Sea! may the world know your laughter
 * As well as it knows your tears!

As your past was for Freedom, so be your hereafter; And through all your coming years May no weak race be wronged, and no strong robber feared; To oppressors grow hateful, to slaves more endeared; Till the world comes to know that the test of a cause Is the hatred of tyrants, and Erin's applause!"