GIVE a man a dog or a gun,
Give a dog a man to love,
Give a woman a patch of sun
And a bit of green with the sky above
Where her babes may laugh and run;
Give a gull the blowing spray,
Give a ship one faithful star,
Give my heart but a single day
Where any of these things are —
And I’ll find my heaven the swiftest way
That ever a heaven was won!