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!