When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good. The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone In the ring of this world, the most precious stone. 
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Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall. 
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