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 IRE, we have looked on many and mighty

things

In these eight hundred summers of renown

Since the Gold Dragon of the Wessex Kings

On Hastings field went down;

And slowly in the ambience of this crown

Have many crowns been gathered, till, to-day,

How many peoples crown thee, who shall say?

Time, and the ocean, and some fostering star,