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Upon the death of the Earl of Dundee

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Oh, last and best of Scots! who didst maintain
Thy country's freedom from a foreign reign;
New people fill the land now thou art gone,
New gods the temples, and new kings the throne.
Scotland and thee did each in other live;
Nor wouldst thou her, nor could she thee survive.
Farewell! who dying didst support the state,
And couldst not fall but with thy country's fate.
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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 36: This is translated from a Latin elegy by Dr Pitcairn.]

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