 | ||
Similar Kilmarnock volume, Epistle to Davie (a brother p, The songs and poems of Robert, The Cottar's Saturday, The Jolly Beggars | ||
"Epitaph for James Smith" is a satirical Scots epitaph written by poet Robert Burns in 1785, and was included in his first publication, the Kilmarnock volume:
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!
References
Epitaph for James Smith Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA