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Coincidance - Principia Discordia

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Why do you live in Ireland,<br />

Dr. Wilson?<br />

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,<br />

It's with O'Leary in his grave<br />

W.B. Yeats<br />

Romantic Ireland is not dead:<br />

It whispers legends in my head.<br />

Pearse's Ireland, born in pain,<br />

Lives in Ballinspittle, and Sinn Fein;<br />

Swift "served human liberty" 5<br />

With the sword of mockery<br />

And in an ecstasy of rage<br />

Wrote many an amusing page<br />

Until his art, his great heart, broke<br />

In one final mordant joke: 10<br />

Looking at the Magazine<br />

He saw what Buddha would have seen;<br />

Fanatic Ireland, in spite of Joyce,<br />

Speaks in every Ulster voice.<br />

Yeats looked for faeries in the hills; 15<br />

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