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- THE O'RAHILLY
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- SING of the O'Rahilly,
- Do not deny his right;
- Sing a "the' before his name;
- Allow that he, despite
- All those learned historians,
- Established it for good;
- He wrote out that word himself,
- He christened himself with blood.
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- Sing of the O'Rahilly
- That had such little sense
- He told Pearse and Connolly
- He'd gone to great expense
- Keeping all the Kerry men
- Out of that crazy fight;
- That he might be there himself
- Had travelled half the night.
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- "Am I such a craven that
- I should not get the word
- But for what some travelling man
- Had heard I had not heard?'
- Then on pearse and Connolly
- He fixed a bitter look:
- "Because I helped to wind the clock
- I come to hear it strike.'
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- What remains to sing about
- But of the death he met
- Stretched under a doorway
- Somewhere off Henry Street;
- They that found him found upon
- The door above his head
- "Here died the O'Rahilly.
- R.I.P.' writ in blood.
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