THE ROSE TREE
 
 'O WORDS are lightly spoken,'
 Said Pearse to Connolly,
 'Maybe a breath of politic words
 Has withered our Rose Tree;
 Or maybe but a wind that blows
 Across the bitter sea.'
 "It needs to be but watered,'
 James Connolly replied,
 "To make the green come out again
 And spread on every side,
 And shake the blossom from the bud
 To be the garden's pride.'
 "But where can we draw water,'
 Said Pearse to Connolly,
 "When all the wells are parched away?
 O plain as plain can be
 There's nothing but our own red blood
 Can make a right Rose Tree.'