THE FUNERAL OF SIR ARCHIBALD THE WICKED. THE more upright our actions here, We will at last have less to fear. Our Carrick Knight was ready still But good men saw their pray'rs at last Come down upon the Baron fast; They sightless saw his eye, that ne'er Was wet with sympathetic tear; They nerveless saw his arm and hand, Dissolve in pestilential swarm ; And wrench'd they saw his putrid frame, Ere Death to his assistance came. No sooner fled away the sprite And formally invite each friend The Baron's funeral to attend. I One from Bargany takes Kilkerran, 2 3 And hurries round by old Dalquarhan; 3 Along the Doon another ran 5 To Monkwood,+ Blairston, and Blairquhan; Nor is he seen his pace to slack Until he reaches Auchenleck. 7 Now Sundrum 8 he is seen to leave, And now he passes Auchencrive;9 His news at Coilsfield 10 gate he cries, And off to Loudon Castle "hies; Then winds the rolling Irvine down Except the roaring of the main, All now was silent round Culzean. 1 The seat of Sir H. Dalrymple, M. P. for Ayrshire. 2 The seat of Sir James Ferguson Bart. 3 The seat of Thomas Kennedy of Dunure, Esq. 4 The seat of James Fergusson, Esq. Advocate. 5 The seat of Lord Alloway. The seat of Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. 7 The seat of A. Boswell, Esq. 8 The seat of Sir James Ferguson, Bart. 9 The seat of R. A. Oswald, Esq. 10 The seat of Lord Montgomerie. 11 The seat of Earl Moira. 12 The seat of John Boyle, Esq. 13 The seat of the Earl of Eglintoun. Escutcheons on the castle wall Proclaim Sir Arch'bald's death to all; And waxen tapers bright at noon Where on a couch of velvet made, With smile upon his visage stern, That they in heav'n may int'rest make The Carrick Knight, for pity's sake, Soon out of purgat❜ry to take. Thus they go on to sigh and pray, Until arrives the funeral day F That morning soon began to toll; Who on their Monarch's household roll Since Coila's dauntless sons arose Ambitious Hacho to oppose, From wild Glen-Nap to Misty-Law, None ever such a bustle saw. Lord, knight, and squire, in mourning weed, On to the scene of death proceed; |