2“Epitaph on Wee Johnny,” The Poetical Works of Robert Burns (Oxford, 1904, 1960), 316.
3“Epitaph to J. Rankine,” ibid., 310.
4“Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson,” ibid., 102. A translation from the Scots is:
O Death! thou tyrant cruel and bloody!
The very devil with his hanging tree.
5“Man Was Made to Mourn,” ibid., 111.
6 Drake, Pioneer Life in Kentucky, 35.
7Ibid., 35.