And you’re settled down, we’ll try—

What? The deuce you say! Rejected?

You rejected?—So was I.

IRISH CASTLES

By Fitz-James O’Brien

“Sweet Norah, come here, and look into the fire;

Maybe in its embers good luck we might see;

But don’t come too near, or your glances so shining,

Will put it clean out, like the sunbeams, machree!

“Just look ’twixt the sods, where so brightly they’re burning,