Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Coleraine | | Kitty of Coleraine | | Anonymous |
| | | AS beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping | |
| 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. | |
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| O, what shall I do now, ’t was looking at you now, | 5 |
| Sure, sure, such a pitcher I ’ll ne’er meet again, | |
| ’T was the pride of my dairy, O Barney M’Leary, | |
| You ’re sent as a plague to the girls of Coleraine. | |
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| I sat down beside her, and gently did chide her | |
| That such a misfortune should give her such pain, | 10 |
| A kiss I then gave her,—before I did leave her, | |
| She vowed for such pleasure she ’d break it again. | |
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| ’T was hay-making season, I can’t tell the reason, | |
| Misfortunes will never come single,—that ’s plain, | |
| For very soon after poor Kitty’s disaster, | 15 |
| The devil a pitcher was whole in Coleraine. | | | | |
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