A NODE TO MISTHER DARAGAVILLE.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 158, 22 September 1883, Page 11

A NODE TO MISTHER DARAGAVILLE.

Th^ following ' is taken from the "Saturday. Advertiser:— ■'''"' '' ''*■ '' ''*''!'' * Attend ye Muses Nine, : „:,,, l While I'm sthrivin' t.o difine- ■ ,' . :. „. ,i >.-. The praises ay an orathor so bould ; ., , *.& Whose iloquince so grand ' '[".". ' ' '. - ( ... ' Attintion can. command ' '_ i_.,;\ . Like spaikers in tti'e anshint days sp quid,;,. Since Tim 0' Sthaynus stood '''",„, ' , ' An' power'd out a mighty flood Ay -wolds' like wather no win' from a mill,/ The world has niver known " -' •" ■ Sich an orathor, mavrone, -.-•■- - > . .j' ; ' As the Auckland hayro, Misther Dargaville-. >Ye've heard o' Lalor Shiel, ./ , . An' the gra^e Sir Robert Peel, : , < ; , , . An' Cuiran, who at spaikin' was a plum, • _ An' Sheridan so, nate. „.; • .. . ' „-.... Who so nobty could orate . .;■ „; About the wrongs ay Ireland,, be gum! Thin Hinery Gratten brave, Who condimned ait.ch.thraitor knave ■'.-. ■. •. .-• That voted for th]e clirty Union BilW, - :They wpr very fine to hear, . , . , ,■•. But they couldn't plaise.the ; ear „>;,- - Like thp Auckland hayro,. Misther Dargavillain the anshint days d' Greece, : ' ' \' t Whin they stole the Goolden Fleece, •"• : " " ' .. ; The Argonauts worph'sint BoystospaiK^ An' at the saige p' Throy, • •'.:•■ >■■■■• -..•• . -• .. Faix Paris was the boy .-,-. ' „•..>■ To blarney poor Queen Helen— rohj the rake! Thin Cicero >'at Rome— V '. ,'.""'','" Though he niver wrote a pome—.. ' . Could spa'ik tinti'l the Thribunes' he would fill -With pathriotic zail, " ■„:•,■>. But his glory it must fail ' ' ' " ' •' : '' , Before the fame o' Misther Dargaville. Ye' ve heard — I'm sure ye must— t '_ . .;7 How, Lord Broom kicked up a dust ' ,' '', Whin bould O'Connellj like a daeint man, Proclaimed the people's' cause, '. - : . s Ah' fought for ayquil laws^-' ' . ;•. . . Och, be nic sowl, they found their matchia Dan I ' . ' ' Thin Gladstone, too, an' Bright, ■*.-..• : In iloquince,can.fight-7- , , ;. •• ; Fm tould as public spaikors they- have skill; Ay coorse they're purty fair, • , But:, bedad, they can't compare „' Wid the Auckland hayro, Misther Dargavillps) Xow, Dargaville's the boy Who the Tories can annoy, • • ■ • • He comes from where tha Shandon Belle ar© . rung . ' • ■ On the plisant- river Lee; An', bogog, 'twixt you an' me, . ■ . , . He's got a taste o' blarney on. his tongue ; i His jistures are so naite, . ' ' „' An' his argumints complaite, The Mayjor had to take a bitther pill ; ; ? Faix, the ruler o' the House ' „< ;r He sat quiet as a mouse — Begorra he's af ear'd of Dargaville. . > . Paody Mub^hy.

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