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- SIXTEEN DEAD MEN
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- O BUT we talked at large before
- The sixteen men were shot,
- But who can talk of give and take,
- What should be and what not
- While those dead men are loitering there
- To stir the boiling pot?
- You say that we should still the land
- Till Germany's overcome;
- But who is there to argue that
- Now Pearse is deaf and dumb?
- And is their logic to outweigh
- MacDonagh's bony thumb?
- how could you dream they'd listen
- That have an ear alone
- For those new comrades they have found,
- Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone,
- Or meddle with our give and take
- That converse bone to bone?
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