For without your forgiveness, and also repentance,
You’ll ne’er go to heaven, and that is my sentence.”
“Poo!” says Paddy McCabe, “that’s a very hard case—
With your Reverence and heaven I’m content to make pace;
But with heaven and your Reverence I wondher—Och hone—
You would think of comparin’ that blackguard Malone.
But since I’m hard press’d, and that I must forgive,
I forgive, if I die—but as sure as I live
That ugly blackguard I will surely desthroy!
So, now for your blessin’, sweet Father Molloy!”