Scottish epitaphs: Gordon Fraser from Wigtown

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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