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Odell

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My mind is sad and weary thinking how             The griffins of the Gael went over the sea         From noble Eir, and are fighting now             In France and Flanders and in Germany.         If they, 'mid whom I sported without dread,             Were home I would not mind what foe might do,         Or fear tax-man Odell would seize my bed             To pay the hearth-rate that is overdue.         I pray to Him who, in the haughty hour             Of Babel, threw confusion on each tongue,         That I may see our princes back in power,             And see Odell, the tax-collector, hung.

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