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LOUDHON'S ATTACK.
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What should the yeomen do?
But throw off the Red and Blue
And swear they will be true,
 Says the Shan Van Vocht?
  What should the yeomen do?
  But throw off the Red and Blue
  And swear they will be true,
   Says the Shan Van Vocht.

And what colour will they wear?
 Says the Shan Van Vocht;
What colour will they wear?
 Says the Shan Van Vocht.
What colour should be seen,
Where our fathers' homes have been,
But our own immortal Green?
 Says the Shan Van Vocht.
  What colour should be seen,
  Where are fathers' homes have been,
  But our immortal Green?
   Says the Shan Van Vocht.

And will Ireland then be free?
 Says the Shan Van Vocht;
Will Ireland then be free?
 Says the Shan Van Vocht.
Yes, Ireland shall be free,
From the centre to the sea;
Then hurrah for liberty!
 Says the Shan Van Vocht.
  Yes, Ireland will be free,
  From the centre to the sea;
  Then hurrah for liberty!
   Says the Shan Van Vocht.

Loudhon's Attack.
A Hungarian War-Song.

Rise, ye Croats, fierce and strong,
From the front and march along;
And gather fast, ye gallant men,
Of Nona and of Warrasden;
Whose sunny mountains nurse a line
Generous as her fiery wine;

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