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| THE sun of Ivera | |
| No longer shines brightly, | |
| The voice of her music | |
| No longer is sprightly; | |
| No more to her maidens | 5 |
| The light dance is dear, | |
| Since the death of our darling | |
| O’Sullivan Beare. | |
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| Scully! thou false one | |
| You basely betrayed him; | 10 |
| In his strong hour of need | |
| When thy right hand should aid him; | |
| He fed thee—he clad thee— | |
| You had all could delight thee: | |
| You left him, you sold him | 15 |
| May heaven requite thee! | |
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| Scully! May all kinds | |
| Of evil attend thee! | |
| On thy dark road of life | |
| May no kind one befriend thee! | 20 |
| May fevers long burn thee | |
| And agues long freeze thee! | |
| May the strong hand of God | |
| In his red anger seize thee! | |
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| Had he died calmly | 25 |
| I would not deplore him; | |
| Or if the wild strife | |
| Of the sea-war closed o’er him: | |
| But with ropes round his white limbs | |
| Through Ocean to trail him, | 30 |
| Like a fish after slaughter | |
| ’Tis therefore I wail him. | |
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| Long may the curse | |
| Of his people pursue them; | |
| Scully that sold him | 35 |
| And soldier that slew him! | |
| One glimpse of Heaven’s light | |
| May they see never! | |
| May the hearthstone of Hell | |
| Be their best bed forever! | 40 |
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| In the hole where the vile hands | |
| Of soldiers had laid thee, | |
| Unhonored, unshrouded, | |
| And headless they laid thee, | |
| No eye to rain o’er thee, | 45 |
| No dirge to lament thee, | |
| No friend to deplore thee! | |
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| Dear head of my darling | |
| How gory and pale | |
| These aged eyes see thee, | 50 |
| High spiked on their jail! | |
| That cheek in the summer sun | |
| Ne’er shall grow warm; | |
| Nor that eye e’er catch light | |
| From the flash of the storm! | 55 |
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| A curse, blessed ocean, | |
| Is on thy green water | |
| From the Haven of Cork | |
| To Ivera of Slaughter: | |
| Since the billows were dyed | 60 |
| With the red wounds of fear | |
| Of Muirtach Og | |
| Our O’Sullivan Beare! | |
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