Anonymous

“ O Love is a plague by night and by day,
⁠once that post you run your skull again,
Love it was for Kitty O‘Shea,
⁠that bother’d the heart of Captain Mulligan,
Brisk and merrily, light and gay,
Stout and steadily, smart and readily,
Soft and funnily, blyth and bonnily,
⁠Quite an Adonis was Captain Mulligan. ”

“ And parson Biggs won't bury me,
⁠Though I am dead Miss Bailey, &c.
Poor ghost, says he, since you and I
⁠Accounts must once and all close,
I have got a one pound note
⁠In my regimental small clothes,
Will bribe the sexton for your grave. ”

“ But I be rin around about,
⁠and stand about the Guard,
Where I see the deil chap the hours,
⁠tan me grow unco fear'd,
Ohon, ohon, her nainsel said,
⁠and whar will me go rin?
For yonder be the black man,
⁠that burns the souk for sin. ”