THE CARDINAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 37, 10 January 1874, Page 10

THE CARDINAL.

[The following song, we understand, has become a great favorite in the Orange Lodges, and in some other " Ultramarine " circles There is some doubt as to whether the author is Mr Frederick Falkner' Q.C., or Mr William Johnston, of Kallykilbeg. Perhaps it is the joint I reduction of these gentlemen. We recognise in it many of the ideas vvhich both have recently expressed in, public— and which indeed are to be mot with every day in the columns of the Irish Tory press.— Ed c Nation.'^

I. An Irish Protestant am I, One of a bold and fearless race. Sustained by favois from on high,' And gifted with especial grace. Uur faith no power can overthrow, Our hearts no dangers can appal, We fear no mortal, high or low, Except — except The Cardinal ! O Lord ! the awful Cardinal ! The dark and dreadful Cardinal J Our knees grow weak Whene'er we speak Or think about the Cardinal !

H. *Tia we who wield, through all the land, Its mortal aud material powr's ; By right of busy brain and hand Its wealih and wis»'om nil are ours : Such qualities aa we i-an show Will bear us up whate'er befal — At least those things would all be soIf 'twere not ior The Cardinal ! Ah, yes, the potent Cardinal, The daring, flaring Cardinal, Our chocks grow pale, Our spirits JaiJ, Whene'er we name the Cardinal L

111. The Irish Papists, far and wide, Are speaking fair as fair can be ; They bid us cast our feari aside And hilp to set our country fire: But fast to England's skirts we'll cling, For, though "she kicks and culls us ah,. If we let go her aprou-slrmg We're captured by (ho Cardinal ! The great gigantic Cardinal,, 'lhe iieice mid ft antic Cardinal, We wake uiih screams From horrid u reams, Each night, about the Cardinal!

IV. WhaA would occur, full well we Lr.ow, If with such men we linked our lives • How very hard the world would go With us, our babies, and our wives f Through all tho land we soon would be Cut up in pieces very small, Then made into a fricassee, And gobbled by the Cardinal t The huge \oracious Cardinal, The wild outrageous Caidiual, There's nought, we ieel, 33ut English steel, Can save us from the Cardinal 1 v. But still, of course, we're very brave ; -^ acn keait of ours i* freedom's throac : We wish to see no land a slave To foreigh bayonets — but our own. And hero we might be patriots too, Erect and prompt at feedom's call,

But that our very eouls turn blue With terror of the Cardinal ' The towering, lowering Cardina 1 . The long-armed, strong-armed Cardinal ; O ! England dear, Stand firmly here, Between us and Tho Cardinal I