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- ROGER CASEMENT
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- I SAY that Roger Casement
- Did what he had to do.
- He died upon the gallows,
- But that is nothing new.
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- Afraid they might be beaten
- Before the bench of Time,
- They turned a trick by forgery
- And blackened his good name.
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- A perjurer stood ready
- To prove their forgery true;
- They gave it out to all the world,
- And that is something new;
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- For Spring Rice had to whisper it,
- Being their Ambassador,
- And then the speakers got it
- And writers by the score.
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- Come Tom and Dick, come all the troop
- That cried it far and wide,
- Come from the forger and his desk,
- Desert the perjurer's side;
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- Come speak your bit in public
- That some amends be made
- To this most gallant gentleman
- That is in quicklime laid.
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