Alas! how dismal is my tale, I lost my watch in Doneraile, My Dublin watch, my chain and seal, Pilfered at once in Doneraile. May fire and brimstone never fail To fall in showers on Doneraile; May all the leading fiends assail The thieving town of Doneraile. As lightnings flash across the vale, So down to hell with Doneraile; The fate of Pompey at Pharsale, Be that the curse of Doneraile. May beef or mutton, lamb or veal, Be never found in Doneraile, But garlic soup and scurvy kale, Be still the food for Doneraile, And forward as the creeping snail, Industry be at Doneraile. May Heaven a chosen curse entail, On ragged, rotten Doneraile. May sun and moon forever fail To beam their lights on Doneraile; May every pestilential gale Blast that cursed spot called Doneraile; May no sweet cuckoo, thrush or quail Be ever heard in Doneraile; May patriots, kings, and commonweal Despise and harass Doneraile; May every post, gazette and mail, Sad tidings bring of Doneraile; May vengeance fall on head and tail, From north to south of Doneraile May profit small, and tardy sale, Still damp the trade of Doneraile: May fame resound a dismal tale, Whene’er she lights on Doneraile; May Egypt’s plagues at once prevail, To thin the knaves at Doneraile; May frost and snow, and sleet and hail, Benumb each joint in Doneraile; May wolves and bloodhounds race and trail The cursed crew of Doneraile; May Oscar with his fiery flail To atoms thrash all Doneraile; May every mischief, fresh and stale, May all from Belfast to Kinsale, Scoff, curse and damn you, Doneraile. May neither flour nor oatmeal, Be found or known in Doneraile; May want and woe each joy curtail, That e’er was known in Doneraile; May no one coffin want a nail, That wraps a rogue in Doneraile; May all the thieves who rob and steal, The gallows meet in Doneraile; May all the sons of Gramaweal, Blush at the thieves of Doneraile; May mischief big as Norway whale, O’erwhelm the knaves of Doneraile; May curses whole and by retail, Pour with full force on Doneraile; May every transport wont to sail,