“ Whisky tippling night and day;
Scolding, fighting, him horns affrighting!
Oh! be easy-faith your crazy now;
The Devil go with you Mrs. Mulligan.
Faith I knew it, I would rue it,
Softly cried the brave O’Mulligan:
O you jewel, cruel jewel.
Willing, willing Mrs. Mulligan;
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”

“ And they tug'd with the Danes till an over-throw
They both of them had with the Norman bow
Yet barring all pother, the one or the other
Were all of them Kings in their turn.
Little Willy, the Conqueror, long did reign
Tho' Billy, his son, by an arrow was slain.
And Harry the first was a scholar bright. ”

“ Thy spade was first the earth to raise,
To join the Clyde to Carron-braes.
⁠But left my song should gather strengths,
And swell with hist’ry into length,
I’ll lum the whole by singing praise
Unto the chrystal Carron-braes.
†The late Sir Laurence Dundas, of West-Kerse. Bart. who lifted the first spade-ful of earth, towards digging of the Great Canal between Forth and Clyde.—The Spade was preserved, and lies in West-Kerse House, by Grangemouth. ”