(Latest Version, with apologies to Lady Dufferin.)
[Senator Chandler, in The North-American Review, recommends that immigration into the United States should be suspended, at least for a year.]
Oi'm sittin' on the stile, Mary, an' lookin' o'er the tide,
An' by jabers Oi'm afraid, Aroon, that there Oi'll have to bide!
The grass is springin' fresh an' green in Ould Oireland, but oh moy!
If there's any green in Jonathan's land, it is not in his oi!
The States are awful changed, Mary; it is not now as then,
When they lifted a free latch-string to all exiled Oirishmen.
Now we miss the whoop ov welcome; they suggest it's loike our cheek,
And Oi'm listenin' for brave Lowell's words—which Chandler does not speak!