Relief for oppressed homeland, please
And then, by the waters of the Lee, the Liffey, the Corrib, the Shannon, the Boyne, the Feale and unaccountable streams, I sat down and wept.
As I wept, I was accompanied by Verdi’s great chorus from his opera, Macbeth, with the haunting title of ‘Patria Oppressa’ or Oppressed Homeland!
Revoiced
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