Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1910 — Old Favorites [ARTICLE]

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Kitty of Colentn*. As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping With a pitcher of milk from the fair of Coleraine, When she saw roe she stumbled, the pitcher down tumbled. And all the aweet buttermilk watered the plain. “Oh, what shall I do now? ’Twas looking at you, now. Sure, sure, such a pitcher I’ll ne’er meet again. "Twas the pride of my dairy! Oh, Barney O'Leary, J’ou’re sent as a plague to the girls of Coleraine!” I sat down beside her, and gently did chide her, That such a misfortune should give her such pain. A kiss then I gave her. Before I did leave her, She vowed for such pleasure she'd break It again! ‘Twas haymaking season—l can't tell the reason— Misfortunes will never come single—that's plain— For, very soon after poor Kitty’s disaster. Thjp devil a pitcher was whole in Coleraine! —Old Song. Address to the Unco Gold. Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman: Though they may gang a kennln wrang, To step aside is human; One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do It; And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us: He knows each chord, its various tone. Each spring its various bias. Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust It; What’s done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted. —Robert Burns.