The 12th Of July (Lament For The Children)

Come pledge again your heart and your hand
 One grasp that never will sever
 Our password be our native land
 Our motto, love forever
 And let the orange lily be
 Your badge, my patriot brother
 It's the everlasting green for me
 And we for one another
 Behold how green the gallant stem
 On which the flower is blooming
 How in one heavenly breeze and beam
 Both flower and stem are glowing
 The same good soil sustaining both
 Makes both united flourish
 But cannot give the orange growth
 And cease the green to nourish
 The more the hand that plucks that flower
 Will vainly strive to cherish
 In that hour the stem blooms on
 The flower, it begins to perish
 Regard them then of equal worth
 While last their genial weather
 The time's at hand when deep in earth
 They will both sink together
 And though it be in our country's cause
 Our party feelings blended
 'Til lasting peace from equal laws
 On both will have descended
 'Til then the orange lily be
 Your badge, my patriot brother
 It's the everlasting green for me
 And we for one another
 And we for one another