St Patrick of Ireland, my dear!

He came to the Emerald Isle

On a lump of a paving stone mounted;

The steamboat he beat by a mile,

Which mighty good sailing was counted.

Says he, “The salt water, I think,

Has made me most fishily thirsty;

So bring me a flagon of drink

To keep down the mulligrubs, burst ye—

Of drink that is fit for a saint.”