There you bound me
That harvest day!
Ah! that I in your blessed bond, love,
Fair and fond, love,
Happy, for ever and ever, stay!
Patrick J. Coleman.
SELECTED IRISH PROVERBS, ETC.
A man ties a knot with his tongue that his teeth will not loosen.
Honey is sweet, but don’t lick it off a briar.
The doorstep of a great house is slippery.