A Hop Through Australia's History |
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1804 - The Castle Hill Rebellion
Convict Johnson, rebel Irish,
At Castle Hill makes speech firish,
Stirs to action his tovarisch,
Sticks and staves and hoes they flourish,
Happy dreams of freedom nourish,
But their plans soon go haywirish,
For among them traitors swinish
The sacred name of mateship tarnish.
Informed Command in speech hellfirish,
Now sets Anglos against Irish,
Routing rebels then proves childish,
And the Irish fate is garish,
Hanged in batches without Kaddish
In great suffering they expirish,
The rest lashings of lashes punish.
The net result of all this bilish,
Wasn't really all that stylish,
Protestants just grew more waspish,
Tried harder in their exiled anguish
Tough Catholics to disestablish.
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