THAT DIRTY RINIGADE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 223, 9 January 1877, Page 2

THAT DIRTY RINIGADE.

Ye liaytlien gods and goddesses from high Olympus' brow, Assist me niuse, och don't refuse, but listen to me now, Wid magic fire inspire me lyre, and lind to me yer aid, Whilst I expose (me timper's rose) that dirty rinigade. Sure, in our brave Provincial ranks we placed him in the front, We thought him sharp Awake, me harp, and sing the power of blunt; The thraitor bould has gone and sould his conscience. Why upbraid The haythin Turks, their dirty works can't match this rinigade ? At Geordie's back, wid Stout and Mac, we placed him in the van, I sed, "Me boys, whin there's a noise, faix Donald is the man To use a stick, asthore avick, he'll niver be afraid ;" I little thought he could be bought, that dirty rinigade. . *\ Whin bould Sir C4.rr.rge, from •£«■■ gorge, charged madly in tll>* In hour of need, we thought that _*c"3W| would still wid us be write ; '""* But whin we thried to put aside the laws that Vogel made, And to obsthruct, the varmint buck'd, that dirty rinigade. And whin, be Jove, we nobly sthrove the counthry's time to waste In useful gas, he helped to pass (the vile, ungrateful baste) The Cinthral Act, sure it's a fact, 'twas thus his cards he played ; As I'm a pote, he turned his coat, that dirty rinigade. And thin agin, as soon as whin we formed the bright iday To sind brave Mac and Geordie back across the roarin' say, Before the throne to cry ochone ! our saycrid cause to plaid— This sarpint jeered, and laughed, and sneered, the dirty rinigade. Avinging gods, on Taieri's clods let al your anger fall, They've spoiled our game, we'll have (oh shame) no ruction afther all, For it's through thim supportin' him our t party is bethrayed ; May Crummell's curse, or somethin' worse, o'er take that rinigade. —Paddy Murphy, in the Saturday Ad. vertiser. Lambton Quay, December 31, 1876.