O MIGHTY Prince! It's no offense, Your worship, that I mane ye, While I confiss 'T was ra-al bliss, A moment to have sane ye! That you should see The likes o' me, The while I stud adjacent, I don't suppose, Although me clo'es Was mighty clane and dacent. Av coorse, ye know 'T was long ago, I looked at Jukes and such men, And longer since, An English Prince Begotten by a Dutchman! But by me troth, And Bible-oath! Wid all me Irish shyness, I've passed the word Wid many a lord, Much taller than your Highness! Ah! well, -- bedad, No doubt ye had, In token of allagiance, As good a cup As ye could sup Among thim black Canajans; But wha' d'ye think Of Christian dhrink, Now tell me that, me tulip! When through a sthraw Your Highness saw, The flavor of a julep? Thim haythen chaps, The nayger Japs, Wid all their curst expinses, Just tuk their fill, And left a bill At which the paple winces; But thin, no doubt, Ye'll ride about Wid BOOLE and all the Aldermen They've little sinse, But, for expinse, There's not a set of boulder men! FERNANDY WUD Has dacent blood, And illigant morality; And ye may swear Our mighty Mayor Will show his horsepitality! The soldiers all Are at his call, Wid Captains to parade 'em; And at the laste, Ye'll get a taste Of dimmecratic fraydem. But plase to note, Ye're not to vote, -- A privilege, by Jabers! Ye could n't hope, Were ye the Pope, Until ye've got the papers! Well, mighty Prince, Accept these hints; Most frayly I indite 'em; 'T is luck, indade, If ye can rade As aisy as I write 'em! And when the throne Is all ye'r own At which ye're daily steerin', Remimber what Some kings forgot, -- Remimber poor ould Erin. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONGS OF INNOCENCE: INTRODUCTION by WILLIAM BLAKE HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THE BEAN-STALK by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY SONNET PREFIXED TO 'NENNIO, OR A TREATISE OF NOBILITY' by EDMUND SPENSER AN ANGLER'S WISH by HENRY VAN DYKE |