A Nation Once Again

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 When boyhood's fire  was  in my blood

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 I  read of  ancient   freemen,

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 For Greece and  Rome who  bravely stood,

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 Three hundred men  and   three men;

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 Then I prayed I yet  might see

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 Our fetters rent in twain,

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 And  Ireland, long a province, be.

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 A Nation once again!



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 A Nation once again,

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 A Nation once again,

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 And lreland,  long  a   province, be

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 A    Nation once again!