EPITAPH FOR JAMES SMITH_POEMS AND SONGS BY ROBERT BURNS

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EPITAPH FOR JAMES SMITH

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!

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