Oh. Paddy dear!and did ya hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground!
No more St. Patrick’s day we’ll keep; his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law ag’in’ the Wearing’ o’ the Green!
I met with Napper Tandy, and he took me by the hand,
And he said, “How’s pour ould Ireland, and how does she stand?
She’s the most distressful country that ever yet was seen,
For they’re hanging men and women there for the Wearin’ o’ the Green.
An’ if the colour we must wear is England’s cruel red,
Let it remind uo of the blood that Ireland has shed:
Then pull the shamrock from your hat, and throw it on the sod,
An’ never fear, ‘twill take root there, though under foot ‘tis trod.
When law can stop the blades of grass from growin’ as they grow,
An’ when the leaves in summer time their colour dare not show,
Then I will change the colour, too, I wear in my caubeen:
But till that day, plaise God, I’ll stick to the Wearin’ o’ the Green.
The phenomenon in itself is associated with electrical storms similar to but completely unrelated to another peculiar phenomenon known as St. Elmo’s Fire. Balls of plasma have been created in the lab in multiple ways, which have strengthened the case for the existence of these events when all we had were witness accounts. But there is no reason to assume that any mechanism discovered in the lab is the one happening in nature.
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