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ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE
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Lament him, Mauchline husbands a',He aften did assist ye;
For had ye staid hale weeks awa',
Your wives they ne'er had missed ye!
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Ye Mauchline bairns, as on ye passTo school in bands thegither,
O, tread ye lightly on his grass—
Perhaps he was your father!
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