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EPITAPH.
Incog.!
hic jacet Charles Mair,
Unbless'd wi' male or female heir:
A spouse he had, baith kind and tender,
But barren as the neuter gender.
Although his soul hath left his body,
As steam sublimely soars frae toddy;
And though the worms his carcase share a',
While it lies happed subter terra—
Yet when the dreadful trump of doom
Calls forth the vassals of the tomb,
Revived, to bliss he forth may come,
More fair than beauteous Absalom.
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