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reach, I trust I need no apology for introducing them in this 

 place. 



The Verses are entitled : 



In Sepulchrum meum avitum, in Cemeterio Francisconorum r 

 Edinburgi, nuper re-aedificatum. 



Jam duodecimum condere lustrum 

 Contigit,— et jam cernere canos 

 Vertice suramo, dum fatiget 

 Impigra quondam membra gressus, 

 Nee oculi vigeant nee aures, 



Hebeat et prorsus sensuum acumen 



— Haec sunt nee tarda? indicia mortis.— 

 Hisce admonitus Fati nunciis, 

 Refici avitum denuo Sepulchrum 

 Curo, et cineris protegi injuria 

 Mistae ut amicis reliquiis cubent,. 

 —Hie enim juncti quondam vita 

 (Nee sivit divelli fatum), 

 Dormiunt una Pater et Mater, 

 Purusque et pius ordo Parentum.— — - 



Salve ! O vitai Anchora et Portus ! 



Salve ! laborum terminus et quies ! 



Salve I brevi subeundaque tecta 



Hospitium viatori fesso ! 



Te specto impavidus ; te longam 



Per noctem fidus sis custos, 



Et reddas (precor) incolumem DEO. 



The event to which Lord Woodhouselee thus steadily look- 

 ed forward was now approaching. In June 1812, after super- 

 intending 



