And no wonder at all if they’ve maddened mine,

Those brown-eyed girls of Jersey!

Some day, when distant enough my track,

To the Land of the Free I shall wander back;

And if not too gray, both heart and hair,

To win the regard of a thing so fair,

I shall try the power of the blarney-stone

In making some darling girl my own:

Some darling girl, that still may be

Keeping all her beauty and grace for me,—