Yet everybody says I’m such a disingenuous man!
And I can’t think why!
“I’m blind to every party sin, and personal defect,
But ready any Land League fault most sternly to correct;
’Gainst Orangemen’s besotted crimes I closely shut my eyes,
But mark the slips of Nationalists with most severe surprise.
And when their foul abuse of us I hear them trying at,
Why, I feel they ought to know we claim monopoly of that!
But although I’ve acted in this way since manhood I began,
Yet people will insist I’m such an undesirable man!