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ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES'), by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: I say that roger casement / did what he had to do
Last Line: That is in quick-lime laid
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Casement, Roger David (1864-1916); Nationalism - Ireland; Treason And Traitors


I say that Roger Casement
Did what he had to do.
He died upon the gallows,
But that is nothing new.

Afraid they might be beaten
Before the bench of Time,
They turned a trick by forgery
And blackened his good name.

A perjurer stood ready
To prove their forgery true;
They gave it out to all the world,
And that is something new;

For Spring Rice had to whisper it,
Being their Ambassador,
And then the speakers got it
And writers by the score.

Come Tom and Dick, come all the troop
That cried it far and wide,
Come from the forger and his desk,
Desert the perjurer's side;

Come speak your bit in public
That some amends be made
To this most gallant gentleman
That is in quicklime laid.





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