Classic Poem

I loved a Scotch then Irish girl
But now I'm lone and free
A diamond one the next a pearl
Both buried i' the Sea
I sung for one I sighed for two
And tryed the last to win
The first she let the tie knot go
Wi none I claimed akin.

The Scotch girl had a bonny face
And coal black was her hair
The Irish girl was first i' place
Her bosom was so fair
'Twas whiter than the new fallen snow
Her eye was like the sun
That failed that frozen spot to show
Between them Im undone.

The Scotch girl turned her nose awry
“Yere no my ain laddie
At bonny Jean my mind did try
But she'd not hearken me
The Irish maiden said ‘Och hounds
My eye is not that same
My Pat the Irish near confounds
Get back the gate ye came.