ERICAN AND ENGLISH

1580-1918

pendix Containing a Few Well-known Poems
in Other Languages

Selected and arranged

By

RTON EGBERT STEVENSON

THIRD EDITION

REVISED AND ENLARGED

NEW YORK

NRY HOLT AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1912, 1918,

BY

HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

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Still, I'd advance ye af propriety,
Father O'Flynn' as the lower of them all.

Here's a health to you, the O'Flynn,
Sláinte, and sláinte, and sláinte agin;
Powerfulest preacher, and
Tinderest teacher, and

Kindliest creature in ould Dougal.

Don't talk of your Provost and Fellows of Trinity,

Famous forever at Greek and Latinity,

Faix! and the divels and all at Divinity-

Father O'Flynn 'd make hares of them all!

Come, I vinture to give ye my word,
Niver the likes of his logic was heard,
Down from mythology

Into thayology,

Troth! and conchology if he'd the call.

Och! Father O'Flynn, you've the wonderful way wid you, All ould sinners are wishful to pray wid you,

All the young childer are wild for to play wid you,

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You've such a way wid you, Father avick!

Still for all you've so ge/DHOW + -

God, your flock in the

Checking the crazy ones,

Coaxin' onaisy ones,

Liftin' the faly ones on with

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