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And what's to become of poor Dame Sthreet,

And who'll ait the puffs and the tarts, Whin the Coort of imparial splindor From Doblin's sad city departs? And who'll have the fiddlers and pipers, When the deuce of a Coort there remains?

And where'll be the bucks and the ladies,

But now that the quality's goin,

I warnt that the aiting will stop, And you'll get at the Alderman's teeble The devil a bite or a dthrop, Or chop;

And the butcher may shut up his shop.

Yes, the grooms and the ushers are goin,

And his Lordship, the dear honest

man,

And the Duchess, his eemiable leedy, And Corry, the bould Connellan, And little Lord Hyde and the childthren,

And the Chewter and Governess tu;

To hire the Coort-shuits and the And the servants are packing their

thrains?

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There's Counsellor Flanagan's leedy 'Twas she in the Coort didn't fail, And she wanted a plinty of popplin,

boxes,

Oh, murther, but what shall I due Without you?

O Meery, with ois of the blue!

For her dthress, and her flounce, MR. MOLONY'S ACCOUNT OF and her tail;

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THE BALL.

GIVEN TO THE NEPAULESE AMBASSA-
DOR BY THE PENINSULAR AND
ORIENTAL COMPANY.

O WILL ye choose to hear the news,
Bedad I cannot pass it o'er :
I'll tell you all about the Ball

To the Navpaulase Ambassador.
Begor! this fête all balls does bate

At which I've worn a pump, and I Must here relate the splendthor great Of th' Oriental Company.

These men of sinse dispoised expinse, To fête these black Achilleses. "We'll show the blacks," says they, "Almack's,

And take the rooms at Willis's." With flags and shawls, for these Nepauls,

They hung the rooms of Willis up, And decked the walls, and stairs, and halls,

With roses and with lilies up.

And Jullien's band it tuck its stand, So sweetly in the middle there,

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was;

And fixed each oye, ye there could spoi,

On Gineral Jung Bahawther, was!

This Gineral great then tuck his sate,

With all the other ginerals, (Bedad his troat, his belt, his coat,

All bleezed with precious minerals ;) And as he there, with princely air, Recloinin on his cushion was, All round about his royal chair

The squeezin and the pushin was.

O Pat, such girls,such Jukes,and Earls,
Such fashion and nobilitee !
Just think of Tim, and fancy him
Amidst the hoigh gentilitee!
There was Lord De L'Huys, and the
Portygeese

⚫ James Matheson, Esq., to whom, and the Board of Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, I, Timotheus Molony, late stoker on board the "Iberia," the "Lady Mary Wood," the "Tagus," and the Oriental steamships, humbly dedicate this production of my grateful muse.

Ministher and his lady there, And I reckonized, with much surprise, Our messmate, Bob O'Grady, there;

There was Baroness Brunow, that looked like Juno,

And Baroness Rehausen there, And Countess Roullier, that looked peculiar

Well, in her robes of gauze in there. There was Lord Crowhurst (I knew him first,

When only Mr. Pips he was), And Mick O'Toole, the great big fool, That after supper tipsy was.

There was Lord Fingall, and his ladies all,

And Lords Killeen and Dufferin, And Paddy Fife, with his fat wife:

I wondtherhow he could stuff her in. There was Lord Belfast, that by me past,

And seemed to ask how should I go

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When William, Duke of Schumbug,
A tyrant and a humbug,
With cannon and with thunder on our
city bore,

Our fortitude and valiance
Instructed his battalions

To respict the galliant Irish upon
Shannon shore.

Since that capitulation,

No city in this nation

So grand a reputation could boast before,

As Limerick prodigious,

That stands with quays and bridges, And the ships up to the windies of the Shannon shore.

A chief of ancient line,

"Tis William Smith O'Brine

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But Clarndon and Corry Connellan beheld this sworry

Reprisints this darling Limerick, this With rage and imulation in their

ten years or more:

O the Saxons can't endure

To see him on the flure,

black hearts' core;

And they hired a gang of ruffins To interrupt the muffins,

And thrimble at the Cicero from Shan- And the fragrance of the Congo on the

non shore!

This valliant son of Mars

Had been to visit Par's,

Shannon shore.

When full of tay and cake, O'Brine began to spake;

That land of Revolution, that grows But juice a one could hear him, for a

the tricolor ;

And to welcome his returrn

From pilgrimages furren,

sudden roar

Of a ragamuffin rout Began to yell and shout,

We invited him to tay on the Shan- And frighten the propriety of Shan

non shore.

Then we summoned to our board

Young Meagher of the sword:

non shore.

As Sinith O'Brine harangued, They batthered and they banged:

"Tis he will sheathe that battle-axe in Tim Doolan's doors and windies down

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These patriots so bould,

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We tuck the opportunity of Tim Doo- These ruffin democrats themselves did

lan's store;

And with ornamints and banners (As becomes gintale good manners) We made the loveliest tay-room upon Shannon shore

lower;

Tin kettles, rotten eggs,

Cabbage-stalks, and wooden legs, They flung among the patriots of Shannon shore.

O the girls began to scrame And upset the milk and crame; And the honorable gintlemin, they cursed and swore :

And Mitchil of Belfast,

'Twas he that looked aghast,

'Twas he was the boy didn't fail,
That tuck down pataties and mail;
He never would shrink
From any sthrong dthrink,
Was it whisky or Drogheda ale;
I'm bail

When they roasted him in effigy by This Larry would swallow a pail.

Shannon shore.

O the lovely tay was spilt

On that day of Ireland's guilt; Says Jack Mitchil, "I am kilt! Boys, where's the back door?.

'Tis a national disgrace: Let me go and veil me face;" And he boulted with quick pace from the Shannon shore.

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Oh, many a night at the bowl,
With Larry I've sot cheek by jowl;
He's gone to his rest,

Where's there's dthrink of the best,
And so let us give his old sowl
A howl,

For 'twas he made the noggin to rowl.

THE ROSE OF FLORA.

Sent by a Young Gentleman of Quality to Miss Br-dy, of Castle Brady.

ON Brady's tower there grows a flower, It is the loveliest flower that

blows,

At Castle Brady there lives a lady,

(And how I love her no one knows); Her name is Nora, and the goddess Flora

Presents her with this blooming rose.

"O Lady Nora," says the goddess Flora,

"I've many a rich and bright parterre ;

In Brady's towers there's seven more flowers,

But you're the fairest lady there : Not all the county, nor Ireland's bounty,

Can projuice a treasure that's half so fair!"

What cheek is redder? sure roses fed her!

Her hair is maregolds, and her eye

of blew.

Beneath her eyelid, is like the vi’let,

That darkly glistens with gentle jew! The lily's nature is not surely whiter Than Nora's neck is, and her

arrums too.

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