If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.

Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scottish national poet

“Epitaph on My Own Friend and My Father’s Friend, William Muir in Tarbolton,” ll. 7-8 (1784-04), First Commonplace Book (1785).
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A mock epitaph for William Muir (1745-1793), a miller in Tarbolton and good friend to Burns' family.