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Weep! weep! for agony and shame
 * With deepening gloom the Gael invest;

Fall'n is each proud and patriot name.
 * On which a nation's hope might rest.

What are they now?—a remnant spared.
 * Writhing from desolation's tread—

Pale pilgrims, who the deep have dared.
 * And traced the sterile waste outspread.

A shattered bark's disheartened crew
 * O'er-gazing from the crowded deck;

The sheeted wave that flashes through.
 * Or bursts above the labouring wreck.