Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson  24689

A Gentleman who Held the Parent for his Honours Immediately from Almighty God!

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    O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody!
    The meikle Devil wi' a woodie
    Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie,
                   O'er hurcheon hides,
    And like stock-fish come o'er his studdie
                   Wi' thy auld sides!
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