Have been laid to rust upon the green

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  • rust: (Dutch) rest → Dutch because of the Dutch House of Orange from which the hero of the Irish Protestants', William III (King Billy, William of Orange), came
  • laid to rest: dead and buried → the Orange invaders have been laid to rest
  • rust: iron oxide → rust turns iron orange
  • rut: sexual intercourse among mammals → in this context, laid also has sexual overtones