A FIG for yer Washington's Birtday,
Away wid yer Fourt uv July, -
The fun uv yer neetion's Thanksgivin',
Be jabers! 't is all in yer oiy.
What hero is wurth the comparin'
Wid Pathrick, the Oirishman's jy?
And who dare the laurels be sharin'
Wid him, that foine broth uv a by?
I was up wid the sun, bright and airly,
Ere the lazy shpalpeen was a dawnin';
Yis, 't was dark, and the bands they a playin'
"Seent Patherick's Dee in the Mornin'."
And I dhressed in me green and me yillow,
And gurded me sword by me side;
And niver a nater young fillow
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