He’s cursed them awake, and asleep in their beds;
He’s cursed them in standing, in sitting, in lying,
He’s cursed them in speaking, and selling, and buying;
He’s cursed the Gladstonian Party, too,
For daring to make that alliance new.
In short these Unionists all averred
So dreadful a curse had never been heard!
Forsooth these Unionists talked away,
Of this Papal curse all the live-long-day,
And gloated with quite a savage glee