They hed as they were comin’

To th’ town that day.

“But it wad need a Homer’s head

War I to tak’ in han’,

To sing or say what fwok that day

War there, or how they wan;

So far and near, an’ God kens whare,

By common invitation,

Wi’ young an’ auld, an’ great an’ laal.

Seem’d met on this occasion,