ADDRESS ΤΟ THE SHADE OF THOMSON, ON GROWNING HIS BUST AT EDNÁM, KOXBURGHSHIRE, WITH BAYS. WHILE HILE virgin Spring, by Eden's flood, While Summer with a matron grace Yet oft, delighted, stops to trace While Autumn, benefactor kind, While maniac Winter rages o'er Or sweeping, wild, a waste of snows: So long, sweet poet of the year, Shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won: While Scotia, with exulting tear, Proclaims that THOMSON was her son. 4 EPITAPHS. EPITAPHS. ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER. HERE Souter **** in death does sleep; To h-ll, if he's gane thither, Satan, gie him thy gear to keep, He'll haud it weel thegither. ON A NOISY POLEMIC. BELOW thir stanes lie Jamie's banes: ON WEE JOHNNY. His jacet wee Johnnie. WHOE'ER thou art, O reader know, That death has murder'd Johnnie! An' here his body lies fu' low- FOR THE AUTHOR'S FATHER. O YE whose cheek the tear of pity stains, Draw near with pious rev'rence and attend! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The The pitying heart that felt for human woe; FOR R. A. Esq. KNOW thou, O stranger to the fame FOR G. H. Esq. THE poor man weeps-here G-n sleeps, May I be sav'd or dd! Z3 A BARD'S * Goldsmith. |