| Show 4 1 lw ia A a rt 4 I 1 aw D b I 1 jr ta A jm A u B iq z 11 I 1 A t V W F Z U 1 AIR 7 N 1 M P T ir sf s f r 61 T L 0 6 ORES I 1 SAOi sweetheart 1 irvi BART she W the thai ai heroine of hl max I 1 filtered Bilt ered thee to the besent generation the name of mar daiy r duff to la maxown only by bradl al i r and by moores poem says the ladles ladies home journal yet her career I 1 reads like a romance it was in london that she was casborn born 1794 her christened name wils was kar kary alary y ann dyke wh when en she was 15 she was known far and wide as one of the most beautiful girls in the neighborhood her poverty led her to adopt the stage as a profession and she and her two sisters also of great grea beauty became ca dancers s at the dublin theater where their singular grace comeliness of face and person persan attracted immediate attention and admiration mi ration wherever the dyke sisters appeared the theater would b be e thronged thron ged jed and mary seemed to be the favorite of the tri trio 0 it wa was 8 the fashion of the time at kilkenny for gentleman amateurs to give annual public pet performances formantes for the benefit of the poor poo r of the city and it was on one of these occasions when the assistance of professional fess ional lonal ladies from dublin was invoked that thomas moore the irish poet was introduced to mary dyke and immediately found himself passionately in love with her it was in the play fortunes frolic that tom moore personated persona ted robin Rough head and mary dyke nancy the irish poet became be came mary dykes very shadow and after a while he poured forth his great love for her and offered her his hand and his heart but for some reason the beautiful mary did not reciprocate the wealth of affection thus offered her and she rejected him it was this which led moore to return to his room and nd in the midnight hour pen his celebrated love song beginning maxy mary I 1 bei believed eved thee true |
