How To Ask And Have

Samuel Lover 1797 – 1868



"Oh, 'tis time I should talk to your mother,
Sweet Mary," says I;
"Oh, don't talk to my mother," says Mary,
Beginning to cry:
"For my mother says men are decaivers,
And never, I know, will consent;
She says girls in a hurry to marry,
At leisure repent."
  
"Then, suppose I should talk to your father,
Sweet Mary," says I;
"Oh, don't talk to my father," says Mary,
Beginning to cry:
"For my father he loves me so dearly,
He'll never consent I should go;
If you talk to my father," says Mary,
"He'll surely say 'No.'"
  
"Then how shall I get you, my jewel,
Sweet Mary?" says I;
"If your father and mother's so cruel,
Most surely I'll die!"
"Oh, never say die, dear," says Mary;
"A way now to save you I see:
Since my parents are both so conthrairy,
You'd better ask me."
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme aBcBxdcd aBcBcece fBfbccac
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 747
Words 159
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

Samuel Lover

Samuel Lover was an Anglo-Irish songwriter novelist as well as a painter of portraits chiefly miniatures He was the grandfather of Victor Herbert Samuel was born at number 60 Grafton Street and went to school at Samuel Whytes at 79 Grafton Street now home to Bewleys cafe By 1830 he was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and lived at number 9 DOlier Street Samuel eventually moved to London and made his main residence there Lover produced a number of Irish songs of which several including The Angels Whisper Molly Bawn and The Four-leaved Shamrock attained great popularity He also wrote some novels of which Rory OMore in its first form a ballad and Handy Andy are the best known and short Irish sketches which with his songs he combined into a popular entertainment called Irish Nights He joined with Dickens in founding Bentleys Magazine When once the itch of literature comes over a man nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen - Samuel Lover Lovers grandson was Victor Herbert who is best known for his many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway A memorial in St Patricks Cathedral Dublin summarises his achievements Poet painter novelist and composer who in the exercise of a genius as distinguished in its versatility as in its power by his pen and pencil illustrated so happily the characteristics of the peasantry of his country that his name will ever be honourably identified with Ireland This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Cousin John William 1910 A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature London J M Dent Sons New York E P Dutton Source Wikipedia more…

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