Fan Fitzger'l

Wirra, wirra ollogone!

Can't ye lave a lad alone,

Till he's proved there's no tradition left of any other girl –

Not even Trojan Helen,

In beauty all excellin' –

Who's been up to half the divelment of Fan Fitzgerl?

Wid her brows of silky black

Arched above for the attack,

Her eyes dart such azure death on poor admirin' man;

Masther Cupid, point your arrows,

From this out, agin the sparrows,

For your bested at love's archery by young Miss Fan.

See what showers of golden thread

Lift and fall upon her head,

The likes of such a trammel-net at say was niver spread;

For whin accurately reckoned,

'Twas computed that each second

Of her curls has cot a Kerryman and kilt him dead.

Now mintion, if ye will,

Brandon Mount and Hungry Hill,

Or Ma'g'llicuddy's Reeks for cripplin' all they can;

Still the countryside confisses

None of all its precipices

Cause a quarther of the carnage of the nose of Fan.

But your shatthered hearts suppose

Safely steered apast her nose

She's a current and a reef beyant to wreck them rovin' ships.

My maning it is simple,

For that current is her dimple,

And the cruel reef 'twill coax ye to's her coral lips.

I might inform ye further

Of her bosom's snowy murther,

And an ankle ambuscadin' through her gown's delightful whirl;

But what need, when all the village

Has forsook its peaceful tillage

And flown to war and pillage – all for Fan Fitzgerl!