VI.

If, by this thou dost discover That thou art no perfect lover; And desiring to love true, Thou dost begin to love anew,— Know this, Thou lov’st amiss; And to love true, Thou must begin again, and love anew.—ED.]

No. XXXV.

July 9, 1798.

The following popular song is said to be in great vogue among the loyal troops in the North of Ireland. The air and the turn of the composition are highly original. It is attributed (as our correspondent informs us) to a fifer in the Drumballyroney Volunteers.

BALLYNAHINCH.[300] A NEW SONG.

A certain great Statesman[301] whom all of us know, In a certain assembly, no long while ago, Declared from this maxim he never would flinch, “That no town was so _loyal_ as Ballynahinch”.