The Half-Door
That whin-bred gerrl in heat or cold
Would iver leave the door swung wide,
Faith, wide as in her home av old
Where hares wanst played and peewits cried.
“Ye're in a throublin' city now,
And och, it seems the city's way
To steal and pilfer, Gawd knows how,”
They told her twinty times a day.
“Faith, I could niver ate nor sleep
Widout a bit av sun,” says she;
“For sure at home we used to keep
The half-door wide as wide could be.”
That whin-bred gerrl, as gerrls have done,
Full wide and open kept her door,
And thought to find her bit av sun
As home-sick gerrls have thried before.
And faith, there soon went thraipsin' thro',
Widout a sash or bar to part,
A city lad wid eyes av blue,
Who left a gerrl wid achin' heart.
Ay, left a girleen av the moors
Shut in widout her thrace av sun,
And wandered on to other doors
As other laughin' lads have done.
“At home,” she sobbed, “there's half-doors in
Each singin' heart and cottage wall—
But in the town wid all its sin
Ye can't be free at all, at all!”
Would iver leave the door swung wide,
Faith, wide as in her home av old
Where hares wanst played and peewits cried.
“Ye're in a throublin' city now,
And och, it seems the city's way
To steal and pilfer, Gawd knows how,”
They told her twinty times a day.
“Faith, I could niver ate nor sleep
Widout a bit av sun,” says she;
“For sure at home we used to keep
The half-door wide as wide could be.”
That whin-bred gerrl, as gerrls have done,
Full wide and open kept her door,
And thought to find her bit av sun
As home-sick gerrls have thried before.
And faith, there soon went thraipsin' thro',
Widout a sash or bar to part,
A city lad wid eyes av blue,
Who left a gerrl wid achin' heart.
Ay, left a girleen av the moors
Shut in widout her thrace av sun,
And wandered on to other doors
As other laughin' lads have done.
“At home,” she sobbed, “there's half-doors in
Each singin' heart and cottage wall—
But in the town wid all its sin
Ye can't be free at all, at all!”
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