Epigram On Said Occasion

written in 1784

O Death, had'st thou but spar'd his life, Whom we this day lament, We freely wad exchanged the wife, And a' been weel content. Ev'n as he is, cauld in his graff , The swap we yet will do't; Tak thou the carlin's carcase aff , Thou'se get the saul o'boot.