James Stephens Quote

If I asked her master he'd give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.

"A Glass of Beer" (1918), line 9, in Collected Poems (London: Macmillan, 1954) p. 185.