Oh, the poor vorkhouse boy &c.
From The Victoria Minstrel.
Published by James Duffy, Dublin.
The Family Ghost.
At the Old Manor House and ancestral Hall,
Where the ivy climbs over the gable-end wall,
A Rookery lends the domain a charm,
And the rats and the mice within-door swarm;
And, time out of mind, as the talk hath been,