THE BIRTH OF GREEN ERIN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 784, 27 April 1877, Page 3

THE BIRTH OF GREEN ERIN.

—o—[fn the following beautiful verses, there is an unusual vigor of imagination, joined in excellent versification, and the knowledge of the “patois” is delicious. It was written many‘years ago by a young Irishman named Moore, and appeared in that very clever story, entitled, “ Tom Stapleton.”] Wid all condescinahin, I’d turn your attinshin, To what I would minshin iv Eain so green ; And without‘hisitayshin, Td show how that nay shin Became iv creayshin the gnu an’ the Queen. It happened one mornin’, Widhout iny warnin’, That Yaynua was born in the beautiful say; An’ be thUtsame token, (An’share’twas provokin’), Her pinions wur soakin’, an’ wudn’t give play. So Niptune, 'who knew her, Began to purshue her. In ordher to woo her, the wicked owld Jew! An’ he very nigh caught her Atop iv:tho wather, Great Jupither’s daughter, who cried “ Poe-ta-100 !” But Jove, the great,jaynious, Look'd down an’ saw Vaynus, Ah’ Niptune so hay..ions purshuin’her wild, So he roared out in tundher He’d tare him asunilher ; Ah’share 'twas no wondher for tazing his child. So a shtar that was flyin’ Around him espy in’, He sazed widhout sightin’, ah’ hurled it below, Where it tumbled like winkin', On Niptune while sinkin’, An’ gave him, I’m thinkin’, a broth of a blow ! An’-thatshtar was'dhryland, Both lowland and highland, An’formed a swate island, the land iv me birth ! Thus plain is the shtory, ’Kase sint down from glory, That Erin so hoary’s a heaven on earth i Thin Vaynus jumped'nately, On Erin so shlately ; But faynted, ’kase lately so bother’d and priss’d. Which much did bewildher ; But ere it had kill’d her, Her father dish tilled her a dhrop iv the bisht! An’ that glass so victorious, It made her feel glorious, A little uproarious 1 fear it might prove ; flince how can yez blame us That Erin’s so famous For beauty, an’ murther, an’ whisky, an’ love?