Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.

- John O'Keefe

What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.

- John O'Keefe

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows tog…

- John O'Keefe