To guard, or draw, or wick a bore,[23]

Or up the rink like Jehu roar

In time o' need;

But now he lags on Death's hogscore,[24]

Tam Samson's dead!

Now safe the stately sawmont sail, salmon

And trouts bedropp'd wi' crimson hail,

And eels weel kent for souple tail,

And geds for greed, pikes

Since dark in Death's fish-creel we wail