But, "Lucius," says she, Since you've now made so free, You may marry your Molly Malone, Ohone! You may marry your Molly Malone.” There's a moral contained in my song, And, one comfort, it's not very long, If for widows you die, Learn to kiss, not to sigh For they're all like sweet Mistress Malone! Ohone ! Oh! they're very like Mistress Malone! THE POPE HE LEADS A HAPPY LIFE Τ From the German HE Pope he leads a happy life, He knows no cares nor marriage strife; I would the Pope's gay lot were mine. But yet not happy in his life. He loves no maid or wedded wife, I would not wish to be the Pope. The Sultan better pleases me, Has wives as many as he will I would the Sultan's throne then fill. But yet he's not a happy man And dares not taste one drop of wine - So here I take my lowly stand, And when my maiden kisses me And when my cheering glass I tope JOHN LOCKE THE EXILE'S RETURN, OR MORNING ON THE IRISH COAST TH' an on the hills of Ireland! H' anám an Dhia.1 But there it is. God's angels lifting the night's black veil Like a bride in her rich adornin'? This one short hour pays lavishly back Ho, ho! upon Cleena's shelving strand 1Th' anám an Dhia, my soul to God. To give us the kindly greeting; In to the shore the seabirds fly On pinions that know no drooping, And out of the cliffs, with welcomes charged, A million of waves come trooping. O kindly, generous, Irish land So leal and fair and loving! No wonder the wandering Celt should think The alien home may have gems and gold And doesn't old Cove look charming there, For thirty summers, asthore machree, E'en so, 'twas grand and fair they seemed But dreams are dreams, and my eyes would ope Oh! often upon the Texan plains, When the day and the chase were over, My thoughts would fly o'er the weary wave, And around this coast-line hover; And the prayer would rise that some future dayAll danger and doubting scornin'— I'd help to win for my native land The light of Young Liberty's mornin'! Now fuller and truer the shore line shows- I feel the breath of the Munster breeze; |