10. Another version reads;
Nor you, ye Proud, impute to these the fault,
If Memory o’er their tomb no trophies raise.
11. Burns borrowed an idea from this verse in his epitaph on the monument to Robert Fergusson, the poet:—
No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay,
No storied urn or animated bust.
This simple stone directs pale Scotia’s way
To pour her sorrows o’er her poet’s dust.
14. This beautiful comparison of the Gem and the Flower seems borrowed (but with added force and elegance) from Dr. Young:
“—— Such blessings Nature pours,