 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...So let that be his birth-day" — " Amen," says the clerk. " If he wasn'ta twins, sure our hist'ry will show — That, at least, he's worth any two saints...And we. keep up the practice from that day to this. RORY O'MORE. YOUNO Rory O'More courted Kathleen Bawn, He was bold as a hawk, and she soft as the dawn;... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1844 - 178 pages
...So let that be his birth-day" — " Amen," says the clerk. " If he wasn'ta twins, sure our hist'ry will show — That, at least, he's worth any two saints...And we keep up the practice from that day to this. THERE'S NO SUCH GIRL AS MINE. On there's no such girl as mine In all the wide world round ; With her... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...eight with nine, and seventeen is the mark. So let that be his birthday,' 'Amen' says the clerk. So they all got blind drunk — which completed their...And we keep up the practice from that day to this." St. Agnes1 Eve was deemed propitious for young maidens in the affair of securing good husbands ; and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...eight with nine, and seventeen is the mark. So let that be his birth-day." "Amen/7 says the clerk. So they all got blind drunk — which completed their...And we keep up the practice from that day to this. St. Agnes'1 Eve was deemed propitious for young maidens in the affair of securing good husbands ; and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...eight with nine, ami seventeen is the mark. So let that be his birth-day." " Amen,'' says the clerk. So they all got blind drunk — which completed their...And we keep up the practice from that day to this. St. Agnes' Eve was deemed propitious for young maidens in the affair of securing good husbands ; and... | |
 | Samuel Lover - Ballads, English - 1858 - 394 pages
...mark, So let that be his birthday."—" Amen," says the clerk. " If he wasn'ta twins, sure our hist'ry will show — . That, at least, he's worth any two...And we keep up the practice from that day to this. * This is a very homely way of saying what Moore has more elaborately turned into polished verse :—... | |
 | Samuel Lover - English poetry - 1858 - 244 pages
...mark, So let that be his birthday."—" Amen," says the clerk. " If he wasn'ta twins, sure our hist'ry will show— That, at least, he's worth any two saints that we know!" Then they all got blind drunk—which completed their bliss, And we keep up the practice from that day to this. MY MOUNTAIN... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Humorous songs - 1863 - 308 pages
...mark, So let that_be his birthday." "Amen," says the clerk. " If he wasn'ta twins, sure our hist'ry will show That, at least, he's worth any two saints...And we keep up the practice from that day to this. THE DREAM. J. MAU.INsoN.] [air—" The Blue-tailed Fly." He. — As I was a working at back o'my plough,... | |
 | Students' songs - 1866 - 134 pages
...So let that be his birthday." — " Amen," says the clerk : " If he wasn'ta twins, sure our hist'ry will show, That, at least, he's worth any two saints...And we keep up the practice from that day to this. IRISH GENTLEMAN. I'LL sing you a good old song, made by a fine ould Paddy's pate, — Of a fine ould... | |
 | Literature - 1868 - 850 pages
...seventeen is the mark, Let that bo his birthday.' ' Amen/ says the clerk. ' If he wasn'ta (iiu'nt, eure our history will show — That at least he's worth...two saints that we know ! ' Then they all got blind dhrunk, which From The London Eeview. FAnADAY.» THIS sketch of the professional career of a great... | |
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Boys, don't be fightin' for eight or for nine, Don't be always dividin' — but sometimes combine; Combine eight with nine, and seventeen is the mark, So let that be his birthday,"— "Amen, 
