The Trial
John C Munro

Events of greatest moment as they're seen in times to come
Are often played out simply at the time
And so the one who rode away
The only one to really say
Upon his word the outcome would resolve - defence or crime

Two years of grief and rage and guilt that took him to the brink
In madness McIntyre was so defined
He wrote it when the thing was done
That Lonigan had touched his gun
His mind so changed that when he came to say - he'd changed his mind

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So take him down
And bring the black cap to me now
Let me speak the words, the only sentence left to say
Prepare the ground
But let no blessing be pronounced
No Holy Ground for one who's gone so far astray

And so the judge who'd sentenced Ellen Kelly to the cells
The one whom death had blown its fatal kiss
Judge Redmond Barry's final act
To hear Ned Kelly answer back
"I'll meet you in a greater court than this"

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