O bury me at Wigtown,
And o’er me raise a modest stane,
Tae tell the folks when I am gane,
The cauld mools wrap the banes o’ ane
Wha wrote and sang o’ Wigtown.
Scottish words: mools = earth, cauld = cold, banes = bones
Raymont Lamont-Brown: Scottish Epitaphs. Chambers, Edinburgh, 1990
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