And never have sought or sighed to wive,
And love if ever in that I engage,
Must come on the fast light bounding Stage.
From Wiseheart’s New Comic Songster, Dublin. No date.
The Road.
The road, the road, the turnpike road!
The brown, the hard, the smooth, the broad,
Without a check, without an end,
Horses against horses on it contend;