But ask not how it haps—like Life and Death

I know not How, nor When, nor Whence, nor Why.

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A BLOKE FROM MULLINGAR.

I met him nearly farthest out—

No matter when or where.

He carried in his ragged clothes

A kind of city air.

I said, “I’ve just been wondering

The devil who you are?”

And he replied, in broken tones,