For had he lived a wheen mae years,
He had been owre tough for all your sheirs;
Now Jamie’s deed, sua man we a’,
And for his sake I’ll say this sa,
In Heiven Jamie be thy saul!”
Mr. Pryse Gordon relates, in his Autobiography, that a sailor having thought proper to enclose the parish churchyard of Deskford, near Cullen, in order to keep it decent, his executor placed a tombstone over him after death, on which was the following:—
“Hic jacet Joannes Anderson, Aberdoniensis,
Who built this churchyard dyke at his own expenses.”
That suggests another which is like unto it:—
“Here lies the laird o’ Lundie,