Lucky Dip Number 16
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On the Death of Angela Gallagher
(A 17 month old child, killed on 3rd September 1971 by the ricochet of an IRA bullet aimed at a British Army patrol) Our innocence is buried with your child She not from hatred but from folly died Her death is both our sorrow and our shame. In harming her we have profaned the name Of him who gathered children to his side. You are my brother, should our faiths divide? This was my infant though not mine the name. Rachel* shall weep And pity dries no tear. |
*Matthew 2:18
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