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IRISH SONGS AND LYRICS 259 |
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LADY HELEN DUFFERIN (1807-1867)
KATEY'S LETTER
O
CH, girls dear, did you ever hear, I wrote my love a letter ? And altho' he cannot read, I thought 'twas all the better. For why should he be puzzled
With hard spelling in the matter, When the matting was so plain ? That I loved him faithfully,
And he knows it—oh, he knows it — Without one word from me.
I wrote it, and I folded it,
And put a seal upon it, 'Twas a seal almost as big
As the crown of my best bonnet; For I would not have the postmaster
Make his remarks upon it, As I'd said inside the letter
That I loved him faithfully,
And he knows it—oh, he knows it —
Without one word from me.
My heart was full, but when I wrote
I dare not put it half in; The neighbors know 1 love him, |
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