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Pardon, old fathers, if you still remainSomewhere in ear-shot for the story's end,Old Dublin merchant 'free of ten and four'Or trading out of Galway into Spain;And country scholar, Robert Emmet's friend, A hundred-year-old memory to the poor; Traders or soldiers who have left me bloodThat has not passed through any huxter's loin, Pardon, and you that did not weigh the cost, Old Butlers when you took to horse and stoodBeside the brackish waters of the BoyneTill your bad master blenched and all was lost;

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