Ireland for the Irish Rhymes and Reasons Against Landlordism with a Preface on Fenianism and Republicanism. By W. J. Linton, Formerly of the Irish "Nation" |
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THE MIDDLEMAN
Landlord's child is Middleman:
John the Puny knows
How the race that Great began
Into Little goes.
Even giants vermin breed,
Quote “the tyrant's plea”:
Middleman hath also “need,”
Vermin though he be.
John the Puny knows
How the race that Great began
Into Little goes.
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Quote “the tyrant's plea”:
Middleman hath also “need,”
Vermin though he be.
Middleman can pay his rent;
Pays it when 'tis due:
If his gain is cent-per-cent,
What is that to you?
May God bless all vermin, then,
Giant born and fed!
But let us be, good Middlemen!
And live where you were bred.
Pays it when 'tis due:
If his gain is cent-per-cent,
What is that to you?
May God bless all vermin, then,
Giant born and fed!
But let us be, good Middlemen!
And live where you were bred.
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