The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-16
!, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH Is, 1898.
ERIN,s FLAG.


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Unroll Frin's dag! fling it's folds to the breeze!
Let it float Ger the land LET it wave DER the seas
Lift it out Of the dust--let it wave as OF yore
i When its chiefs with their clans stood around it
and swore XII I # 1ss
That never, no, never! while God gave them life,
And they had an arm and a sword for the strife,
That never, no, never! that banner would yield,
! AS long as the heart of eltwasits shield
| While the hand of a Celt had a weapon to WELD,
And his last drop of blood was unshed on the
l3 field!
Lift it up wave it high!'tis as bright as Of old
mot stain on it's green not a blot on its gold,
Though the woes and the wrongs of three hundred
4 long years @
Have drenched Erin's Sunburst with blood and
4 with tears;
Though the clouds of oppression enehroud it in
gloom, Il
And around it the thunders of tyranny boom.
Look aloft look aloft! 10! the clouds drifting by
i There's CLEAN through the gloom. there's a
III light in the sky,
4 IT'S the sunburst resplendent- far, flashing on
high 54;
Erin 's dark night is, waning, her day dawn is
4 nigh.
y Lift it up! lift it up! the old Banner of Green;
The blood of its has but frightened its sheen.
i What though the tyrant has trampled itdown,
i Are its. folds not emblazoned with deeds of
Nh renown?
4 What though for ages it droops in the dust
Shall it droop thus for ever? No, no! God is Just!
8 Take it up take it up from the tyrant's foul
q tread, -. Hzss
\ Lest he tear the Green Flag; we will snatch it's
= last shred, @
q And beneath it we'll bleed as our forefathers
y 8 bled- T
!. And we'll vow by the dust in the graves of our
a dead,
q And Wen swear by the blood that the Briton has
II shed, IS
And we'll vow by the wrecks which through
Il Erin he spread,
And We'll swear by the thousands who famished,
unfed
u Died down in the ditches-wld bowling for
q 8 bread:
And we'll VOW by our heroes. whose spirits have
fled,
And We'll swear by the bones in each coffinless
That We'll battle the Briton through danger and
). dread,
That We'll cling to the cause which we glory to
. Till the CLEAN of our steel and the shock of oul
lead
Shall prove to the foe that we meant what we
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+ That 'll1iftup the Green and We'll tear doWI
+ Is8s the Red.
4 Lift up the Green Flag-oh! it wants to go home
& Full long has: its lot been to wander and roam;
NJ ii has followed the fate Of it's DER the world
folds kestlleiT hopes are not sfated no
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Like aweary winged bird: to the East and tn,
West
( It has fitted and fed but it never shall rest,
Till, pluming it's pinions, it sweeps DER the main
And speeds to the shore of its old home again,
Where its fetteress folds DER each mountain ani
plain .f.-.Ea
E Shall wave with glory that never shall wane.
, Take it up! take it up! bear it back from afar!
That banner must blaze mid the lightning o
war;
Lay your hands on its folds, lift your eyes to tn
il sky,
d And swear that you'll bear it triumphant or die
e And shout to the clans scattered far DER tn
- earth,
To joinsin the march to the land of their BIRTH
And wherever the Exiles, meath heavens broa
dome, IS.
!" Have been fated to suffer, to sorrow. and roam
(. They'll bound on the sea, and away DER tn
They'll march to the music of ''Home swee
Home.'' -
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