THE BIRTH OF GREEN ERIN.

Kumara Times, Issue 163, 12 April 1877, Page 2

THE BIRTH OF GREEN ERIN.

[ln the following beautiful verses, there is an unusual vigor of imagination, joined to excellent versification, and the knowledge of the "• patois” is .deli T . cious. It was written many years ago by a young Irishman named Moore, and appeared in that very clever story, entitled, ‘‘ Tom Stapleton”] Wid all condescinshin, I’d turn your attinahin, To what I would minshin ivErin so green } And without hiaitayshin, I’d show how that nayshin Became Iv creayshin the giro an’the Queen. It happened wan tnornin’, Widhoilt iny warnin’, That Yaynua was born in the beautiful aay An’ be' chat same token. (An* ahure ‘twas provokin’), Her pinions wur soaki’n/ 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 the wather, Great Jupither’s, daughter, who cried “ Poo-ta-loo!” But Jove, the great jaynious, Look’d down an’ saw Vaynns, An Niptune so haynious purshuin’ her wild, So he roared out in tundher He’d tare him asundher ; An’ shura ‘twas no wondher for tazin bis child.

So a shtar that was flyin’ Around him espyin’, He sazed widhout sighin’ an’ hurled it below Where it tumbled like winkin’, On Niptune while sinkin’, An, gave him, I’m thinkin’, a broth of a blow! An’ that shtar 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 shtately ; But faynted, ’kase lately so bother’d and prisa’d. Which much did bewildher ; But ere it had kill’d her. Her father dishtilled her a dhron iv the bisfc! An’ that glass so victorious, It made her feel glorious, A little uproarious I fear it might prove ; ; Hince how can yez blame us That Erin’s so famousFor beauty", an’ murther, an’ whiskey, an’ love?