Then many a day she pass'd away in sorrow and despair, Her cheeks, though once like roses, were grown like lilies fair; She cried, where is my Henry, and often did she swood, Crying, sad's the day I ran away from Edinburgh Town. Oppress’d with grief, .without relief, the damsel she did go Into the wood, to eat such food as on the bushes grow; Some strangers they did pity her, and some did on her frown, And some did say, what made you stray from Edinburgh Town ? Beneath a lofty spreading oak, this maid sat down to cry ; And watching of the gallant ships, as they were passing by, She gave three shrieks for Henry, then plunged her body down), And away floated Caroline, of Edinburgh Town. A note, likewise her bonnet, she left upon the shore, And in the note a lock of hair, with the words, “I am no imore;" But fast asleep, I'm in the deep, fish are watching round, Once comely young Caroline, of Edinburgh Town. Come, all you tender parents, ne'er try to part true love, You're sure to see, in some degree the ruin it will prove, ; Likewise young men and maidens, ne'er on your lovers frown, Think of the fate of Caroline, of Edin. burgh town. TEDDY O'NEALE I've come to the cabin he danced his wild jigs in, As neat a mud palace as ever was seen; . And, consid'ring it served to keep poultry and pigs in, I'm sure it was always most elegant clean. But now all about it seems lonely and dreary, All sad and all silent, no piper, no reel; Not even the sun, through the casement, is cheery, Since I miss the dear darling boy, Teddy O'Neale. I dreamt but last night-oh! bad .lick to my dreaming, I'd die if I thought 'twould come truly to passBut I dreamt, while tears down my pillow were streaming That Teddy was courting another fair lass; Oh! didn't I wake with a weeping and wailing, The grief of that thought was too deep to conceal ; My mother cried— Norah, child, what is ỹour ailing ?” And all I could utter was—" Teddy O'Neale." Shall I never forget when the big ship was ready, And the moment was come when my love must depart; How I sobb’d, like a spalpeen, “Good bye to you Teddy,” With drops on my cheek and a stone at my heart. He says 'tis to better his fortune he's roving, But what would be gold to the joy I should feel If I saw him come back to me, honest and loving, Still poor, but my own darling, Teddy O'Neale M LOVE AND LIQUOR. How one Misther Theseus On a dissolute island, All lovely and silent, cowld. As she roar'd, with the quilt out of bed, Where she look'd like a ghost, bone fled. Sure my heart it is gray ; on half pay! Came riding postilion, Big enough, faith to ate him, But he leather'd and bate him, the laste; It was finer by far than a Lord Mayor's state coach. And the chap that was in it, He sang like a linnet, With a nate kag of whiskey beside him to broach. And he tipp'd now and then, Just a matther o'ten Or twelve tumblers o' punch to his bowld sarving men. They were dressed in green livery, But seemed rather shivery, wore, Like the sweeps on May-day, galore ! Is often in plasther- A fine chubby fellow, lap. A bottle to crack us, Caius Gracchus ! |