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Yer Honour's own agint, he says to me wanst, at Katty's shebeen,

'The Divil take all the black lan', for a blessin' 'ud come wid the green!'

An' where 'ud the poor man, thin, cut his bit o' turf for the fire?

But och! bad scran to the bogs whin they swallies the man intire!

An' sorra the bog that's in Hiven wid all the light an' the glow,

An' there's hate enough, shure, widout thim in the Divil's kitchen below.