O Death, had’st thou but spar’d his life,Whom we this day lament,We freely wad exchanged the wife,And a’ been weel content.
Ev’n as he is, cauld in his graff,The swap we yet will do’t;Tak thou the carlin’s carcase aff,Thou’se get the saul o’boot.
1784 · Poem
Epigram on the Said Occasion
- Year
- 1784
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Mossgiel
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns