Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
III. Loves BeginningsKitty of Coleraine
Charles Dawson Shanly (18111875)A
With a pitcher of milk, from the fair of Coleraine,
When she saw me she stumbled, the pitcher it tumbled,
And all the sweet buttermilk watered the plain.
Sure, sure, such a pitcher I ’ll ne’er meet again!
’T was the pride of my dairy: O Barney M’Cleary!
You ’re sent as a plague to the girls of Coleraine.”
That such a misfortune should give her such pain.
A kiss then I gave her; and ere I did leave her,
She vowed for such pleasure she ’d break it again.
Misfortunes will never come single, ’t is plain;
For very soon after poor Kitty’s disaster
The devil a pitcher was whole in Coleraine.