An awfu’ power in him doth dwell,

To ope and shut the gates of hell,

That’s the prize o’ the Greeking o’t.

Wait a year and ye will see,

Ha, ha, the Greeking o’t!

High upon the tap o’ the tree,

Sam perch’d by the Greeking o’t!

In the Kirk Assembly he

Sits as big as big can be,

Moderator Sam, D.D.,