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!