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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 133

Select Poetry.

o*/ ■ £;'i . t . SONG OB A HEAD CENTEH. ' ■*■■:•-*i;tyirj> ■evii.i .£>;re ; s*3 £fi?i eiY:i ; piste sndjewela, To saize upon the arsenals, and fire the magazines, And blow the base aristocrats up into smithereens. ' -iiiqst-etit pt gc&ujiswjo •£ Arise my fellow-countrymen, let’s murder all the • .' • *<~pwtot»,cnU,?./: ?. sS.iiyy.-d;. The parsons and the ministers, and all those kind •ww'-baistart vy-il j'-rj ■;« •*{< t The nobles and,tha gently we'll hang oh their own l'--} u : si i All of'em we can catch, and above all the absenThe tAfops that ntaitih' against ns will iminadlately ■ .-^retire,.r, l r ..r{«wT:* , v , ■ <,. - ---v- ’’ upon them when we open with' a volley of Greek e fire/ , -j r / ■- The corpses of their comrades will' be left upon c;the'plain;- ";, t j,-, It's then we will lit glory pick the pockets of the v slain. •

But shoidfi we be defeated; by Misfortune's cruel . fate,- - . , ... s ; With mighty little punishment *llß likely we : jrtifrn , mate; , They'darh'iot hang for thrason' head off 3houlders iock, . The gulows'is fe bugaboo; a praty for the block!

But there la Colonel Kelson, hoys, and there's ~,lieutenant Brand: , A trialfdr their life, fcedad, is “what they’vh got to stand..,; ~ - How they stamp out rebellion, sure, their likes - will take good care, ■aeing what throable that has brought on £ and ur Byre. -

Jack Stuart Mill-fcr ever, and hurroo for. friend ~r J ack Bright! Success-to the Committee philo-hlack and antiwhlte.l ; , . Hang thenvfhateruahea rebels'in ’the service of .the Crown, And then whoß be the hoys to. put the Fenian ..Brother*.dt turn?. -f----—Punch.