And making this daily fame and fuss,
Declaring the Nationalist cause was done,
And the Parnellites doomed were every one.
Whilst still they were bidding the world to see
What ruin was wrought by the Pope’s “Decree,”
And everywhere stating, in prose and verse,
There never was heard such a terrible curse!
This fact gave rise
To no little surprise,
Nobody seem’d one penny the worse!