Would sooner bring tears to their sockets.

LX.

Give him a collar without a skirt,

(That's the Irish linen for shirt)

And a slice of bread with a taste of dirt,

(That's Poverty's Irish butter)

And what does he lack to make him blest?

Some oyster-shells, or a sparrow's nest,

A candle-end and a gutter.

LXI.