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VII.
The tumbling torrents boiling roar.
The winter-shrouded lifeless trees,
The nipping frosts mildewing hoar.
My sad desponding fancy please.
VIII.
Joy’s mortal bane, false womankind!
For you on Avon’s banks I’ll mourn;
Nor soothing solace hope to find.
But in the silent peaceful urn.
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VERSES WRITTEN IN THE HIGH CHURCH
YARD, GLASGOW, WHERE THE AUTHOR
NOW LIES.
I.
Grieve not ye wife, though in this yard
Some hundred thousands lie;
The just inherit their reward,
Are happiest when they die.
II.
When wicked men to graves descend
No more they’ll plague mankind;
On earth that life should never end
Was ne’er by heaven design’d.