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by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
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Thim ould blind nagers in Agypt, I hard his Riverence say,

Could keep their haithen kings in the flesh for the Jidgemint day,

An', faix, be the piper o' Moses, they kep the cat an' the dog,

But it 'ud 'a been aisier work av they lived be an Irish bog.

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