{"id":696,"date":"2021-03-16T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poetry.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2021-03-16T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:00:00","slug":"wearin-of-the-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wearin-of-the-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Wearin&#8217; of the Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83045462\/1913-03-16\/ed-1\/seq-33\/\"><em>From the Evening Star, March 16, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n \n\n Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The news that\u2019s going round?\n The shamrock is forbid by law\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To grow on Irish ground.\n \n And Saint Patrick\u2019s Day no more we\u2019ll keep,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His color can\u2019t be seen;\n For there\u2019s a bloody law against\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The wearin\u2019 of the green.\n \n I met with Napper Tandy,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And he took me by the hand,\n And he said, \u201cHow\u2019s poor ould Ireland,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And how does she stand?\u201d\n \n She's the most distressful country\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That ever you have seen;\n They\u2019re hanging men and women there\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For wearin\u2019 of the green.\n \n Then since the color we must wear\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Is England\u2019s cruel red,\n Sure Ireland\u2019s sons will ne\u2019er forget\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The blood that they have shed.\n \n You may take the shamrock from your hat,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And cast it on the sod;\n But \u2019twill take root and flourish still,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Tho\u2019 under foot \u2019tis trod.\n \n When the law can stop the blades of grass\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From growing as they grow,\n And when the leaves in summertime\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Their verdure dare not show,\n \n Then I will change the color\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I wear in my corbeen;\n But till that day, please God, I\u2019ll stick\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To wearin\u2019 of the green.\n \n But if at last our color should\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Be torn from Ireland\u2019s heart,\n Her sons with shame and sorrow\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From the dear old soil will part.\n \n I\u2019ve heard whisper of a country\n \u00a0 \u00a0 That lies far beyond the say,\n Where rich and poor stand equal in\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The light of freedom\u2019s day.\n \n Oh, Erin, must we leave you?\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Driven by the tyrant\u2019s hand,\n Must we ask a mother\u2019s welcome\n \u00a0 \u00a0 From a strange but happier land,\n \n Where the cruel cross of England\u2019s thralldom\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Never shall be seen,\n And where, thank God, we\u2019ll live and die\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Still wearin\u2019 of the green?<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Oh, Paddy dear, and did you hear<br \/>\n     The news that\u2019s going round?<br \/>\n The shamrock is forbid by law<br \/>\n     To grow on Irish ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evening-star","category-newspapers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}