But now, alas! I sue no more,
Because—she is my wife.
“We are Seven.”
[The seven members who thus attained for a night a most unenviable notoriety were Mr. Parnell, Mr. O’Connor Power, Mr. Richard Power, Mr. O’Donnell, Captain Nolan, Major O’Gorman, and Mr. Whalley.]
’Tis Peterborough’s simple child,
Who knows not what he saith,
Replies to me in utterance wild,
And somewhat out of breath.
He has a rustic woodland air,