Epitaph For James Smith

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Title:     Epitaph For James Smith
Author: Robert Burns [More Titles by Burns]

Lament him, Mauchline husbands a',
He aften did assist ye;
For had ye staid hale weeks awa,
Your wives they ne'er had miss'd ye.

Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye press
To school in bands thegither,
O tread ye lightly on his grass,--
Perhaps he was your father!

 

1785

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Robert Burns's poem: Epitaph For James Smith

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