If Tam O'Shanter'd had a wheel, and other poems and sketches . 54 IF TAM OSHANTER D HAD A that of a gurrl I used to know whenI was a young man. * * * I canhear her laugh as plain as when itrippled ever the lakes that war likejewels around old Tyrone county inthim days. Was that your home? I lis-tened with a new interest, for he hadnamed my fathers county. Tyrone ? Oah, yes, it war Ty-rone, he replied, And what was the name of the girl who looked asI look so many years ago? Molly Mulholland, it war, he replied, a heart throbbreaking through the quiet tone. Oah, it war MollyMulholland. I
If Tam O'Shanter'd had a wheel, and other poems and sketches . 54 IF TAM OSHANTER D HAD A that of a gurrl I used to know whenI was a young man. * * * I canhear her laugh as plain as when itrippled ever the lakes that war likejewels around old Tyrone county inthim days. Was that your home? I lis-tened with a new interest, for he hadnamed my fathers county. Tyrone ? Oah, yes, it war Ty-rone, he replied, And what was the name of the girl who looked asI look so many years ago? Molly Mulholland, it war, he replied, a heart throbbreaking through the quiet tone. Oah, it war MollyMulholland. I turned to him in great surprise. She was myown grandmother! I cried. But his ears were dulled orfilled with other voices and he did not seem to sensemy words. Strange things like this may happen every day. Butmy heart still thrills with the wonder of it; for across theseas and across the years this old man came to find in ROMANCE IN THE IRISH VILLAGE. 55 my face the look of the woman he had loved full sixtyyears ago; the look veiled by the grave from Erins skiesfor half a century; the look o
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