A MONODY ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BURNS, THE SCOTCH BARD. WRITTEN BY S. KEMBLE, ESQ. For two Voices.--Tune Gaffer Gray. AHL what's there ill nows; speak, old Robin Gray, 0! sad news I have heard, Roby Burns, man, is dead, Well, a well a day, Is he gone then for aye, and for aye, Robin Gray ? No, cold as a clod, Beneath a green sod Well, a well a day, Adieu then the forest and bill, Robin Gray, Why the forest and hill And the vallies ring still, Well, a well a day, The sad sound of echo l'll shun, Robin Gray, Can you then as you roam From your forefather's home. Leave your forefather's feelings bebind, Well, a well a day, Leave your forefather's feelings behind ? Still the blackbird will sing on the thorn, Robin Gray, But the lowly lodg'd swain, As he scatters the grain, Well, a well a day, Softly lie on his bosom the turf, Robiv Gray, May the tomb of his urn Caledonia adora, Well, a well a day, The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Repre. sentatives in the House of Commons The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, 'the Author's Address to the Unco Guid; or, the Rigidly Righteous The Auld Farmer's New Year's Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie Nov. 1785 89 86 88 ib. 89 On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies A Dedication. To Gavin Hamiltou, Esq. To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church 105 Epistle to J. Lapraik, ao Old Scutish Bard. 106 To W. S*****0, Ochiltree, May, 1785 . 113 Epistle to J. R****, inclosing some Poems Song. It was upon a Lammas Night Song. Now westlin winds and slautering guns Song. Behind yon Hills where Lugar flows Song. Green' grows the Rashes, a Fragment i 128 Song. Farewel to the Brethren of Si. James's Lodge, Tar. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson 133 - for James, Earl of Glencairn Epitaph on a celebrated Ruling Elder The humble Petition of Broer Water Op the Birth of a Posthumous Child The Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate Issue of a Despondency, an Ode . 154 A Prayer in the Prospect of Death Verses left in the Room where the Author slept at a Reven A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish . The first Six Veises of the 90th Psalm To Ruio . . ib. . 165 Song. From thee, Eliza, I must go Song. No churchman am ( for to rail and to write .. A Stanza added to ditto in a Mason Lodge Verses written in Friar's-Carse Hermitage on Nith side . 171 Ode. Sacred to the Memory of Mr. - of - . 172 To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintra . Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart. with the Lament of James, Earl of Glencairn On sceing a wounded Hare limp by me which a Fellow had just shot at Address to the Shade of Thompson, on crowning his Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with Bays Epitaph for the Authoi's Father loscription to the Memory of Fergusson To Miss Cruikshanks, a very young Lady, written on the blank leaf of a book presepted to her by the Author Song. Anna, thy Charms my Bosom fire On reading iu a Newspaper the Death of John M‘Leod, Esq. Brother to a Young Lady, a particular Friend of Ou scaring some Water Fowl in Loch Turit, a wild scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre Written with a Pencil over the Chimney Piece in the Par. Jour of the Inn at Kepmore, Taymouth Written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, uear . The Inventory, in Answer to a Mandate by a Surveyor of Extempore Verses ou Dining with Lord Daer Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock • ly2 Answer to a Trimming Letter from a Taylor Address to an illegitimate Child Poem addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Copy of a Poetical Address to Mr. William Tytler, with the Present of the Bard's Picture . On the Battie of Sneriff. Muir, between the Duke of Argyle • 10 . 20 The following Poem was written to a Gentleman, who had |