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First Line: They perish'd here whom jefferies doom'd to death
Last Line: La hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead!
Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Innocence; Jeffries, Richard (1848-1887); Persecution; Revolutions; Dead, The


THEY perish'd here whom Jefferies doom'd to death
In mockery of all justice, when he came
The bloody judge, the minion of his king,
Commission'd to destroy. They perish'd here,
The victims of that judge and of that king,
In mockery of all justice perish'd here,
Unheard! but not unpitied, nor of God
Unseen, the innocent suffered! not in vain
The widow and the orphan, not in vain
The innocent blood cried vengeance! for they rose,
At length they rose, the people in their power,
Resistless. Then in vain that bloody judge
Disguised, sought flight: not always is the Lord
Slow to revenge! a miserable man
He fell beneath the people's rage, and still
The children curse his memory. From his throne
The sullen bigot who commission'd him,
The tyrant James was driven. He lived to drag
Long years of frustrate hope, he lived to load
More blood upon his soul. Let tell the Boyne,
Let Londonderry tell his guilt and shame,
And that immortal day when on thy shores,
La Hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead!





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