It's most exasperating, that when my back I turn

You pace the Ranelagh Gardens, with cotton-ball O'Byrne."

The linen draper started, and with indignant shout,

Said he, "She loves me only, you ferule-fingered lout,

Your time you're only wasting, so take a thought, and spurn,

The idle hopes, that lure ye," said Mister Pat O'Byrne.

Just then up came a stranger, with bending courtesy,

He doffed his triple tilted, "Good-night, mam'selle," said he,

Then turning to O'Gorman, and then, to Pat O'Byrne,