PENELOPE
"Miss Stack bringing him flowers the worst old ones she could find at the bottom of the basket anything at all to get into a mans bedroom with her old maids voice trying to imagine he was dying on account of her to never see thy face again though he looked more like a man with his beard a bit grown in the bed father was the same" (U18.26)
The song Molly is quoting, as discovered by Harald Beck, is "The Last Watch" by Ciro Pinsuti (1829-88). For the full text, see his article Two Unidentified Songs in the Penelope Episode in the James Joyce Online Notes.
