Was any tidins' seen,

Of me owld purse, me forty pound!

Or of the Fairy Queen!

Then, whin I thought of Norah's wrath,

An' what a power she'd say,

Me fine black hair, riz on me skull,

An' grew all grizzle gray!

O never more, to Dublin town,

I'll come, to sell me pigs!

I walk a melancholy man,