MR. JOSEPH DELAMERE WHYTE. 369 



A handicapper do you seek ? you may search both near and far, 

 Nor find a better in the land than Willie R. Dunbar. 

 But, gentlemen, your temper's tried, yet one more toast, I pray — 

 The Irish Sportsman and ourselves, here's to both, hurrah ! 



June iqih, 1875. 



MR. JOSEPH DELAMERE WHYTE. 



I'm not "the Poet Laureate," but I sometimes make a "rhyme;" 

 I don't often try to do so — 'tis seldom I have time ; 

 Yet j'usf nozv I am at leisure, and a few lines I'll indite, 

 And try to sing the praises of my hero, /. D. Whyte ! 



Of course you've often heard of him — if not 'tis very plain 

 You've never been to Newbridge, to Naas town, or to Clane ; 

 For round about that country, wherever you may go, 

 All classes " hymn the praises " of my " plucky little Joe " 



Now, if e'er you have " good 'un " give " Mr. Joe " the mount, 

 I'll give you his address — 'tis Clane, his residence Viewmount. 

 Of names he has full many — " Walter," "Dominick," and so 

 You easily can hail hiin, but he answers best to "Joe." 



You've heard of " Irish victories" beyond the " Irish wave," 

 Of the " doings" of P. Gavin at Croydon on Clonave; 

 He's a first-rate plucky horseman, doing ever "what is right," 

 But I think he ne'er could " give an ounce" to our good friend 

 Joe Whyte. 



For his one of our best riders, deny it if you can. 



For, search the island through and through, where is the better 



man 



Why speak we of his victories at Galway or Baldoyle, 

 Or laud " an Irish gentleman " so " racy of the soil ?" 



When first he won in Punchestown — sure I was there to see — 

 He rode the Farmers' Race upon a horse called N.M.D. ; 

 A most exciting contest with Rosewood and Malone, 

 But Joseph rode in brilliant style, and landed " the old roan!" 



When riding then at Limerick he got a nasty fall. 

 Where Alice, in the Tradesman's, was knocked o'er at the wall ; 

 Then the Garrycastle Handicap he won down at Athlone, 

 Where he also won the Challenge Cup on Red-tape for Malone. 



