It is there she should be, so she ought,

With the eyes dancing jigs in her head;

Faith, when I was a boy, sure we thought . . .”

“Moryah!

’Twas yourself had an eye in the head.”

“Don’t I mind the old days that are through,

When a boy and a colleen afar

Felt the bound and the hurt of it too

As they swung in a dream on a star—

Thiggim-thu,[[13]] my Old Man, thiggim-thu?”