XXVI.
Reading edition
INSCRIPTION.
ON THE HEADSTONE OF FERGUSSON.
[Some social friends, whose good feelings were better than their taste, have ornamented with supplemental iron work the headstone which Burns erected, with this inscription to the memory of his brother bard, Fergusson.]
Here lies Robert Fergusson, Poet. Born, September 5, 1751; Died, Oct. 15, 1774.
No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, “No storied urn nor animated bust;” This simple stone directs pale Scotia’s way To pour her sorrows o’er her poet’s dust.