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Rh This is the struggle for justice and right—

The peaceful and good constitutional fight,

To remove from our country the Union blight!—

The struggle of those who've spoke out at last,

And said that the time of despair was past,

And that, &c.

This is the Whig Lord, who bribery tried

With the young men of Ireland, once her hope and her pride,

Who, ere they had yielded, ought surely have died!

They, who kept from the struggle for justice and right,

The peaceful and good constitutional fight,

To remove, &c.

These are the Tories, seated now in high place,

The haters of Ireland, her creed, and her race!

More bold than the Lord, who bribery tried

With the young men of Ireland, once truly her pride!

Who, ere they had yielded, ought surely have died!

They who now hold off from the struggle of right,

The peaceful and good constitutional fight,

To remove, &.c.

These—oh, these are the —still honest and true,

Who will do once again what before they did do!

Make Peel and his fellows the rights to concede

Of a whole nation now—as before of a creed!

Shake off the vile Tories, though firm now in place,

(The haters of Ireland, her creed, and her race:)

Nor bring back the Whig Lord, who bribery tried

With the young men of Ireland, once truly her pride!

Who, ere they had yielded, ought surely have died!

They who now hold off from the struggle of right,

The peaceful and good constitutional fight,

To remove from our country the Union-blight!—

The struggle of those who've spoke out at last,

And said that the time of despair was past!

And that Ireland's rights were well worth one cast!

After all the years twice twenty and two—

That she has been doomed to endure and rue