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.