"Some Passages from the life of Adam Blair"—

(Blair is a Scottish name),

What are they, but thy own good roads, M'Adam?

VII.

O! indefatigable labourer

In the paths of men! when thou shalt die, 'twill be

A mark of thy surpassing industry,

That of the monument, which men shall rear

Over thy most inestimable bone,

Thou didst thy very self lay the first stone!