“ Saint Jacob he takes our blest Lord by the hand:
“I gladly would Christianize Garsia land.”
“O how wilt thou bring it within Christian pale?
No ship hast thou here o’er the salt sea to sail.”
“Thy power, O Lord, is so wondrously great,
Full quickly a ship Thou for me canst create.”
“Saint Jacob, hie down to the salt ocean strand,
There standeth so little a stone by the land.” ”

“ Lone, lone you have left me here—
“If you go to the church in those sandals of hide.”
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.
“O, daughter, my dear, if my brogues give you pain”—
Lone, lone you have left me here—
“There’s that in the coffer will make you look fain.”
Lone, lone, and void of cheer.
A million of curses on Mollie Charane—
Lone, lone you have left me here—
The first who gave tocher to daughter in Man.
Lone, lone, and void of cheer. ”

“ As though he the pang of death never had known.”
p. 18“Now hear thou, my dear son, so fine and so fair,
What news from thy journey afar dost thou bear?”
“The news which I bring from the far distant place,
Is that one little knows of the other’s hard case.
“There the woman, who’s hated the child of her womb,
Out of the snake-tower can ne’er hope to come.
“There the cruel step-mother, her child who has slain,
Goes begirt with a sword fraught with festering bane.
“The merchants who here in heaps money up-rake,
There hiss in the likeness of serpent and snake. ”

“ This ballad is founded on a real character—a miser—who by various means acquired a considerable property, and was the first person who ever left “tocher,” that is fortune, to daughter in Man. His name was Mollie Charane, which words interpreted are “Praise the Lord.” He lived and possessed an estate on the curragh, a tract of boggy ground, formerly a forest, on the northern side of the island, between the mighty mountains of the Snefell range and the sea. ”