{"id":833,"date":"2014-10-03T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2014-10-03T22:13:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:13:56","slug":"marching-past-trinity-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/marching-past-trinity-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Marching Past Trinity College"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Written after the &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; march on June 1, 2010<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;oOo&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>We marched there, chanting slogans<br \/>\nPast the gates of Trinity<br \/>\nOn College Green in Dublin<br \/>\nA few hundred odd, and me<br \/>\nA poet from down the country<br \/>\nWho had much of the worlds wrongs to say<br \/>\nAnd chanting slogans and marching<br \/>\nTo the GPO made our way.<\/p>\n<p>I rememeber once in a book<br \/>\nA picture I had seen<br \/>\nOf Unionists from Dublin town<br \/>\nWho at this spot had been<br \/>\nWith Union Jacks froudly waving<br \/>\nAt some demonstration or other<br \/>\nWhere rich man and poor man<br \/>\nUnder the Flag was brother.<\/p>\n<p>How much has changed in those years<br \/>\nFrom which all our kind has came<br \/>\nIts all different &#8211; utterly<br \/>\nAnd yet is much the same.<br \/>\nThe poverty is less now<br \/>\nBut the poverty of the soul<br \/>\nIs abundant among the poor<br \/>\nAnd it consumes them whole.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, for flag of empire or republic<br \/>\nThey trust the state to the rich man<br \/>\nWho reap its harvest for their own<br \/>\nAs it has been since time began.<br \/>\nWe are the fools the working class<br \/>\nWho vote them in allowing them to<br \/>\nGive all our assets to the rich<br \/>\nAnd their mistakes then we rue.<\/p>\n<p>Why cant we march with our own<br \/>\nEach man loyal to his own flag<br \/>\nUnder the banner of the working class<br \/>\nUntil of this we brag<br \/>\nIt is pointless marching<br \/>\nThough to march does little harm<br \/>\nFor thie rich man for the poor always has a fist<br \/>\nTo crush them at the end of his arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written after the &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; march on June 1, 2010 &#8212;oOo&#8212; We marched there, chanting slogans Past the gates of Trinity On College Green in Dublin A few hundred odd, and me A poet from down the country Who had much of the worlds wrongs to say And chanting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,55,475,1],"tags":[1047,1043,1045,1046,1044],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austerity","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-dander-in-dublin","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-higgins","tag-right-to-work","tag-socialist-party","tag-socialist-workers-party","tag-united-left-alliance","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-dr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3571,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-enchanted-library\/","url_meta":{"origin":833,"position":0},"title":"The Enchanted Library","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"28th February 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The dead do not talk Silent: lips sealed, unspeaking Conversation ended. 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