| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 62587 |
| QUOTATION: | O Paddy dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is by law forbid to grow on Irish ground!
No more Saint Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin the wearin’ o’ the Green! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Unknown. The Wearing of the Green (l. 37–40). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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