LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW, AT THE KING'S YE men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering LINES WRITTEN ON THE WINDOW OF THE GLOBE TAVERN, DUMFRIES. THE greybeard, Old Wisdom, may boast of his treasures, I grant him his calm-blooded, time-settled pleasures, LINES WRITTEN UNDER THE PICTURE OF THE CEASE ye prudes, your envious railing, Had a woman ever less? EPIGRAM ON ELPHINSTONE'S TRANSLATION OF MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS. О THOU, whom Poetry abhors, Whom Prose had turned out of doors, EPITAPH ON A COUNTRY LAIRD, NOT QUITE SO WISE AS SOLOMON. BLESS the Redeemer, O Cardoness, With grateful lifted eyes, Who said that not the soul alone, But body, too, must rise; For had He said, "The soul alon、 Then thou hadst slept for ever' EPITAPH ON WEE JOHNNY. Hic jacet wee Johnny. WHOE'ER thou art, O reader know EPITAPH ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER EPITAPH FOR ROBERT AIKEN, ESQ. KNOW thou, O stranger to the fame EPITAPH FOR GAVIN HAMILTON, ESQ. THE poor man weeps-here Gavin sleeps, But with such as he, where'er he be, 1 John Wilson, who printed an edition of Burns' Poems. 2 Shoemaker, EPITAPH ON MY FATHER. O YE, whose cheek the tear of pity stains The tender father, and the gen'rous friend; The pitying heart that felt for human woe; "For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side.” EPITAPH ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER, HERE lies Johnny Pidgeon; To some other warl' Maun follow the carl, For here Johnny Pidgeon had nane! Strong ale was ablution, Small beer persecution, A dram was memento mori; But a full flowing bowl Was the saving his soul, And port was celestial glory. EPITAPH ON JOHN BUSHBY,' WRITER, IN HERE lies John Bushby, honest man, "Went to the churchyard where Burns is buried. A bookseller accompanied us. Went on to visit the grave. There,' said the bookseller to us, pointing to a pompous monument a few yards off, 'there lies Mr. John Bushby, a remarkably clever man; he was an attorney, and hardly ever lost a cause he undertook. Burns made many a lampoon upon him, and there they rest, as you see.""Memoirs of Wordsworth, i. 214. GLOSSARY. THE ch and gh have always the guttural sound. The sound of the English diphthong oo, is commonly spelled ou. The French u, a sound which often occurs in the Scottish language, is marked oo, or ui. The a in genuine Scottish words, except when forming a diphthong, or followed by an e mute after a single consonant, sounds generally like the broad English a in wall. The Scottish diphthong e, always, and ea, very often, sound like the French e masculine. The Scottish diphthong ey, sounds like the Latin ei. Awn, the beard of barley, oats, Agley, off the right line; wrong Ayont, beyond Airle-penny, Airles, earnest Backets, ash boards Aft, oft Aften, often Alblins, perhaps Ain, own BA', Ball |