God’s blessing on Earl Simon, his sons and followers light!
Who put their lives in jeopardy and fought a desperate fight,
Because their hearts were moved to hear their English brethren groan
Beneath the hard taskmasters’ rods, making a grievous moan,
Like Israel under Pharaoh’s yoke, in thraldom and in dread,
Their freedom gone, their lives scarce spared, so evilly they sped.
But at the last the Lord looked down and saw His people’s pain,
And sent a second Mattathias to break their bonds in twain;
Who with his sons so full of zeal for the law and for the right,
Will never flinch a single inch before the tyrant’s might.