“Why, so it is, father,—whose wife shall I take?”
UPON BEING OBLIGED TO LEAVE A PLEASANT PARTY
FROM THE WANT OF A PAIR OF BREECHES TO DRESS FOR DINNER IN
Between Adam and me the great difference is,
Though a paradise each has been forced to resign,
That he never wore breeches till turn’d out of his,
While, for want of my breeches, I’m banish’d from mine.
Samuel Lover and Charles James Lever are two more versatile Irish authors, the latter being the most eminent of the Irish novelists.
Both wrote delightful light verse and many popular songs.
RORY O’MORE
Young Rory O’More courted young Kathleen Bawn.