THE GIRL I'VE LEFT BEHIND ME. ANONYMOUS. AIR-"Brighton Camp." I'm lonesome since I cross'd the hill, To the girl I've left behind me. Had I the heart to sing her praise Her golden hair in ringlets fair, The bee shall honey taste no more, In constancy to her I love, My mind her form shall still retain For whom my heart is breaking. And she should not decline me, THE ATHLONE LANDLADY. "TWAS in the sweet town of Athlone ́ Lived the beautiful Widow Malone, She kept the Black Boy, Was an armful of joy, And had plenty of lovers, och hone, och hone! O the world for you, Widow Malone! Both stuck in her craw, And she couldn't digest them, och hone, och hone! O success to sweet Mistress Malone ! But Cupid, who's the divil's own, 'Twas brave Sergeant MacWhack, With long sword and broad back, And his roguish black eyes at her thrown, och hone! O they bother'd the Widow Malone. The love-sick sweet Mistress Malone Oh, would I were bone of his bone, och hone !" More of that to you, Mistress Malone. Still the lawyer and doctor will groan, And tease the poor widow, och hone! Till one day Pat MacWhack Kick'd them out in a crack, And a smack gave sweet Katty Malone, och hone! "O you've won me !" cried Widow Ma lone. So they wedded one morning, och hone ! And with fun sure the stocking was thrown; And he's man of the house, Is sweet Mistress MacWhack, late Malone, Malone; So more luck to MacWhack and Malone. TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. J. E. CARPENTER. "SURE, Katty, you'd much better tarry," One day said my mother to me, "For you still over young are to marry, My darling, to that you'll agree." "Oh! mother, your frown sorely tries me, Why should I not do as you've done?" "Sure," said she, "I had none to advise me, And two heads are better than one." Then who should I meet but dear Larry, I told him the worst of my fears; "It's my mother that wont let me marry," Said I, nearly choked by my tears: "Och! your mother's advice don't be dreading, Sure it's just the right thing to be done, For the best of all reasons for wedding Is-that two heads are better than one." To my mother I went the next morning, I blushed as I showed her the ring, "So it's all my advice you've been scorning !" 'Sure, mother, it's no such a thing." "Larry said that you never could scold me, For but doing what others have done, And besides we've but proved what you told me, That two heads are better than one !" |