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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!