And do your best to lure the Whigs and scare all timid souls.
Ho! swollen cohort of the League, think not our hearts to fright.
Ho! followers of the Liberal Flag, keep clear your sense of right.
To foil Hibernia’s tyrant, yet to raise Hibernia’s slave,
Will tax the counsel of the wise, the valour of the brave.
Yet here’s for having at the task, how stiff soe’er it be!
And here’s to him who’ll lead us on, our dauntless William G.!
House of Commons, Wednesday, January 20.
The Daily News. January 21, 1886.
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